All Courses
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0BVU10006SLBV151S - UNIVERSITY SEMINAR
This online course site is designed for Dr. Bethany Larson's University Seminar for Fall 2015.
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DIGI30001SLBV151S - LEGAL & ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES
This course is a practical survey on the legal and ethical principles applied by journalists in their daily reporting and editing activities as well as to average citizens’ lives. Using a contextual approach, the course begins with an examination of legal and ethical historical foundations. Through lecture, discussion, and research students will learn how the law and ethical principles converge and diverge across Supreme Court rulings, the development of principles statements across a variety of professional organizations, and in everyday practice. The primary focus for this course is the richly textured arena of American First Amendment law and its relationship to communication and media ethics and practice. Students will be challenged to think critically about modern-day issues associated with Constitutional guarantees such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press, journalistic ethics, as well as censorship, defamation, burden of proof, malice and forethought, copyright and trademark laws, privacy, press access and how technological advances require us to think in new ways about these and other issues.