Rotating topics seminar. Emergence and growth of mass media infrastructure, support organizations, and related entities. Reading, critical study. Students complete research papers of publishable quality. Investigation into the meaning and purpose of the press, speech, petition, and assembly clauses of the First Amendment.
Students complete research papers of publishable quality.
Investigation of legal research techniques for the mass communication scholar and of the literature of a particular mass media law topic. Student research required. Execution of an individual or group research project on a specialized topic under close supervision of the instructor. Students complete research papers of publishable quality. Examination and application of major theoretical perspectives of public policy-making as they apply to the American mass media.