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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog This is not the most recent catalog version; be sure you are viewing the appropriate catalog year.
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JRNL 213 Introduction to Journalism [GEKS]
An exploration of the role and responsibility of journalism in American Society. Using historical context as well as contemporary media research and theory, the course examines the practices, obligations, and freedom of news producers, while focusing on the evolving responsibility of citizens in a democracy to become critical consumers of an participants in journalism. Student media research.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall and Winter
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Restriction by Class - Undergraduate standing
Rationale for Knowledge of the Disciplines - Introduction to Journalism explores what it means to be an informed and engaged citizen in America today as it asks students to consider the role and responsibility of journalism in American society. As a course in the “Knowledge of the Disciplines: Social Science” component of the General Education curriculum, it stresses emphasizes not only how journalists gather and produce news, but also how consumers of news can impact the process as citizens in a democracy. Considerable social science research has examined the effects of the media on society. To a lesser degree, research has explored the ways in which society impacts the media. This course offers insights into how citizens in a democracy can participate in the journalistic process via commentary, blogs, and their choices in the marketplace and more directly through feedback to the media through channels like letters to the editor and even more directly through their own blogs, Web sites, podcasts, etc. Through the study of communication theory and its relationship to media research and the practice and profession of journalism, students will grow as critical consumers of news and other media.
Keywords: journalism , Knowledge of the Disciplines - Social Sciences (GEKS)
Updates: Course rotation added 7/2019; Change to dept. 4/2016, effective Fall 2016
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