A journalism course invites students to consider the parallels between gathering news and shooting pool. Maskot / Getty Images Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: “News Writing and Reporting II: Multimedia” What prompted the idea to use pool to teach journalism? I wanted to break up the monotony of having students sit at their computers and write news stories or listen to me lecture. So I figured