COMM 186
Mass Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy
Description: Lecture, three hours. To publish or not to publish? Study addresses questions of media ethics--and ethics more broadly--using case-study method to debate pressing issues from actual newsrooms. Students participate in Socratic discussion of fairness, bias, and personal and societal implications of printed, broadcast, and digitized word. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2020 - This class is super engaging and hands-on. If you're at all interested in journalism and media, it's a great crash course focusing on a lot of important ethical case studies. It's largely discussion- and debate-focused, so it's fun to listen to and talk with other students in the class. The workload is pretty light – just a weekly discussion post and two exams that ask you to take a stance on a given case and defend it. Abbe has a lot of experience working in journalism (she used to write for the LA Times and has a Pulitzer Prize) so she offers really interesting insight.
Spring 2020 - This class is super engaging and hands-on. If you're at all interested in journalism and media, it's a great crash course focusing on a lot of important ethical case studies. It's largely discussion- and debate-focused, so it's fun to listen to and talk with other students in the class. The workload is pretty light – just a weekly discussion post and two exams that ask you to take a stance on a given case and defend it. Abbe has a lot of experience working in journalism (she used to write for the LA Times and has a Pulitzer Prize) so she offers really interesting insight.
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i took comm 187 (journalistic ethics) jim is the kind of professor you'd want to get to know over a beer. you can tell he's a cool guy in the way he talks, presents himself, and knows his shit. his lectures were interesting, engaging, and entertaining since the topics are universally relatable and contemporary as well. his anecdotes on covering the oj simpson trial and the la riots make his professorship all the more credible. who better to learn the journalism industry from than the editor at large of the la times? take him. his midterm and final are straightforward. no gimmicks. just a few questions you choose to answer in short essay format. kinda like the law classes you take in the comm department. relevant, useful, not too difficult, but you need a good sense of analysis.
i took comm 187 (journalistic ethics) jim is the kind of professor you'd want to get to know over a beer. you can tell he's a cool guy in the way he talks, presents himself, and knows his shit. his lectures were interesting, engaging, and entertaining since the topics are universally relatable and contemporary as well. his anecdotes on covering the oj simpson trial and the la riots make his professorship all the more credible. who better to learn the journalism industry from than the editor at large of the la times? take him. his midterm and final are straightforward. no gimmicks. just a few questions you choose to answer in short essay format. kinda like the law classes you take in the comm department. relevant, useful, not too difficult, but you need a good sense of analysis.
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