BCLA3009
BCLA 3009 - Media and Conflict (3 Cr.) Civic Life and Ethics, Social Sciences
Learning Abroad Center (10038)
TOIP - Global Programs and Strategic Alliance
BCLA 3009 - Media and Conflict (3 Cr.) Civic Life and Ethics, Social Sciences
Course description
The course will provide a structured approach to address different media systems. It will explore the dynamics of news, politics, conflicts and freedom of the press. Focusing on ongoing, international crises of global importance, we will examine how various international media report on topics including armed conflicts, human rights abuses. Study the dynamics governing news media environment and structures. We will try to understand why different audiences from different cultural spheres perceive the same news in sometimes a diametrically opposed way. We will examine the rich arsenal of repression tools used by authoritarian and even democratic regimes to suppress press freedom or spin news to their advantage. We will look at the ways and means by which courageous journalists try to circumvent these obstacles.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
OPT - Student Option
Lecture
This course fulfills the following Liberal Education requirement(s)
Civic Life and Ethics, Social Sciences
Typically offered term(s)
Every Fall, Spring & Summer