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Credits: 1 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course will explore the nature of persuasive argumentation as applied through the specific lens of parliamentary style debating.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze the degree to which forms of human difference shape personal experiences of and perspectives on the world.
- Analyze a contemporary global issue from a multidisciplinary perspective.
- Explain and be able to assess the relationship among assumptions, method, evidence, arguments, and theory in social and historical analysis.
- Understand different theories about human culture, social identity, economic entities, political systems, and other forms of social organization.
- Apply concepts about human and social behavior to particular questions or situations.
- Examine critically philosophical and other theoretical issues concerning the nature of reality, human experience, knowledge, value, and/or cultural production.
- Engage critically in the process of creative expression.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:200, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
This course examines the nature and impact of emerging media technology. Students study four primary ways new technology influences media, including 1) how media professionals do their work, 2) the nature of media content, 3) the relationships between and among media and relevant publics, and 4) the structure, culture and management of media organizations and systems. Five areas of media technology are studied, including 1) acquisition tools, 2) storage technologies, 3) processing devices, 4) distribution technologies and 5) display, access or presentation tools.
(This course was formerly numbered 04:567:330)
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Conceive of new media and their implications for journalism and society.
- Understand weblogs and other new media that are transforming journalism.
- Think critically about new media and their consequences.