JOUR4721
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JOUR 4721 - Mass Media and U.S. Society (3 Cr.) Diversity and Soc Justice US, Social Sciences
School of Journalism & Mass Communication (10976)
TCLA - College of Liberal Arts
Course description
Are the news media doing a good job? How can you tell? Does it matter? Is The Daily Show the best news program on television? Why or why not? Most people seem to have an opinion about all of these questions. Most discussions seem to center on one of four themes: 1) who owns the media and what they care about; 2) whether the news media are becoming more or less credible and/or biased; 3) whether entertainment is replacing or enhancing information in news programming; and 4) how much, if at all, is the Internet changing everything about the way the media work, including who we think of as a journalist. Mass Media and U.S. Society explores the validity and importance of these themes in terms of what roles can the media play in society, what roles does it play, and how have those roles have changed over time. The course draws on ideas from various social sciences to develop tools for discussing a number of specific issues related to these themes.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
OPT - Student Option
Lecture
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for:
01503
This course fulfills the following Liberal Education requirement(s)
Social Sciences, Race, Power, and Justice in the United States
Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?
No
Typically offered term(s)
Every Spring