Journalism of the Civil Rights Movement | School of Communication and Information

Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None

Students read and study the journalism of the U.S. civil rights movement (1954-1968) to understand its historical role

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement and the news media’s role in it;
Show an ability to think critically, analytically, and originally about questions that arise in the course of class readings and discussions;
Evaluate the quality of journalism from a different historical era (midcentury America), judged by the standards of its time, including by comparing different examples of the genre;
Develop some ability with researching a subject by going beyond class assignments and discussions and pursuing independent work;
Use the Rutgers databases and other advanced methods to find source material about a chosen research topic;
Present independent research confidently to a group of one’s peers, without simply summarizing information or reading from a script.