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COM 298: Media Ethics
3 credits
Students will examine fundamental ethical issues currently confronting journalism and mass communication. Students will also examine and assess ethical theories that will enable them to make discriminating moral judgments about dilemmas commonly faced within media-related professions.
Learning Goals
Students will:• analyze major ethical frameworks and apply them to situations that arise in the mass media context. Each week, they will be presented with case studies and be required to formulate what they would do and why, based on course materials, reasoning and their own ethical framework.• review the guidelines, norms, and suggestions that govern the media professions.• hopefully have fun while investigating questions that have no definitive answers.
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