Junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. Course topics include methods of criticism, types of media persuasion, effects of media on the consumers of this discourse, and critical evaluation of media messages. Junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. Course topics include defamation, invasion of privacy, stirring to prejudice and hatred, symbolic battery, intimidation and coercion, and an examination of different philosophical bases of ethical practices in communication. Junior or senior standing or permission of instructor.
Emphasis is on creative vision and using advanced camera and darkroom techniques.
Visually oriented ideas are developed into photo essays and features. The study federal and state regulations of both print and broadcast media to understand how legal mandates and constraints have defined the roles of the media in society. Course topics include historical and contemporary analysis of libel, privacy, free press and fair trial, access to government information, regulation of advertising, and regulation of broadcasting. This course explores the rhetorical strategies that initiate and sustain social movements. This course offers an analysis of the scope and constraints on public expression that aim to motivate social change and offers a review of critical perspectives on symbolic campaigns, argumentative styles, and persuasive functions typical of social movements.