Inside Columbia Journalism School: Prof. Ari Goldman Discusses His "Covering Religion" ClassWe are pleased to present a new video series that takes you inside Columbia Journalism School to learn more about its faculty and classes. In this video, Ari Goldman (M.S. '73), Professor of Journalism, discusses his legendary class "Covering Religion," which gives Columbia students the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to another country to learn and report on how religion is practiced outside the United States. Before beginning his teaching career at Columbia in 1993, Professor Goldman, a graduate of the Master of Science Program, spent 20 years - most of them as a religion writer - at The New York Times.<br /><br /> "Covering Religion," which is open to all full-time and part-time Master of Science Program students,&#xA0; prepares Columbia students to write about religion for secular media outlets. Thanks to a generous grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation, the class travels each year - at no cost to students -&#xA0; to different countries for a week-long spring break study trip to look at how religion influences society. In past years, the class has gone to Jordan and the West Bank; Ireland and Northern Ireland; Russia and Ukraine; India and Italy. In 2019, the class went to Israel - read about the trip in the class blog. Please see below to see the photographs of previous "Covering Religion" classes that hang on Professor Goldman's office walls.&#xA0;<br /><br /><br /><br /> &#xA0; "Covering Religion," which is a spring semester elective course open to all those in the full-time and part-time Master of Science Program, prepares Columbia students to write about all aspects of religion for a wide variety of media outlets. Thanks to a generous grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation, the class travels each year - at no cost to students - to different countries for a week-long spring break study trip to look at how religion influences society. In past years, the class has gone to Jordan and the West Bank; Ireland and Northern Ireland; Russia and Ukraine; India and Italy. Below are some of the photographs of previous "Covering Religion" classes that are displayed on Professor Goldman's office walls.