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Semester: | Summer 2021 |
Number: | 0108-298-001 |
Instructor: | Mark Grabowski |
Days: | TBA |
Note: | Online, Asynchronous |
Location: | Online |
Credits: | 3 |
Status: | Cancelled |
Course Meets: | May 26 - June 30 |
Course Materials: | View Text Books |
Description: |
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. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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