JOUR 3771 is also offered in Spring 2025
JOUR 3771 is also offered in Fall 2024
JOUR 3771 is also offered in Spring 2024
JOUR 3771 is also offered in Fall 2023
JOUR 3771 is also offered in Summer 2023
JOUR 3771 is also offered in Spring 2023
JOUR 3771 is also offered in Fall 2022
JOUR 3771 is also offered in Summer 2022
JOUR 3771 is also offered in Spring 2022
JOUR 3771 is also offered in Fall 2021
JOUR 3771 is also offered in Summer 2021
Summer 2023 | JOUR 3771 Section 001: Media Ethics (82465)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Open (18 of 35 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Citizens expect journalists to separate fact from falsehoods, opinion and propaganda. But is it possible for journalists to be unbiased and objective? Advertisers are expected to push products. But is it acceptable to mislead by exaggerating what the product can do? Public relations professionals must protect a company's brand. But what should they do when a company becomes entangled in a scandal? This course examines the ethical and unethical ways that communicators respond to such challenges, and uses real-life examples to identify values and principles that can lead to sound, ethical decisions under the most difficult circumstances. Learn about ethical communication on all platforms, from television to social media to newspapers and magazines. Build a solid foundation for your own ethical thinking that can guide you as a student and as a professional communicator.
- Class Description:
This course will help students build a foundation for making ethical decisions under the kinds of difficult circumstances that journalist and strategic communication professionals face every day. Most of our discussion will focus on processes we could use to make ethical judgments. Students will learn ethical principles and standards that could be applied in ethical decision-making. The class will study actual cases drawn from many media sources. Students will be expected to participate by presenting their own examples of ethical dilemmas found in the media. That means students should be reading the newspapers and staying abreast of news every day. It also means that attendance and class participation is essential in this course. Just showing up in this class is not good enough.
- Workload:
Pages of reading/week: 20
Pages of writing/semester: 15
Number of exams: 2
Number of papers: 2- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/82465/1235
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 October 2015
ClassInfo Links - Summer 2023 Journalism & Mass Communicat Classes