300-400 LEVEL COURSES G245 - Reading the Newspaper

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University of Massachusetts-Boston

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After reviewing changes in the media landscape over the past 20 years, impact on the news coverage and on our way at looking at the world, we'll focus on how a paper or a TV newscast is put together on a daily basis. We will assess how reporters and editors' deadlines and pressure bear consequences on how the news is selected, reported, written or produced. We will study how they deal with access to information, censorship, bias, and accuracy especially in times of controversy. We will review the news coverage of 9/11 terrorist attacks and during the Iraq War from America, European & Middle Eastern standpoints as well as what it says about us. Finally, we will analyze the relationships between media, multiculturalism and identity as well as foreign news and media. This course relies on daily newspaper readings, concrete exercises, and writing & interaction with guest lectures. By looking carefully at the way top-ranked papers and networks go about their business, we will become more skillful, rigorous, efficient & critically self-aware readers & viewers. This course will help students improve their writing & analytical skills. This course is an Intermediate Seminar in the General Education Program. MWF 2:00 - 2:50 Herron

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.umb.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 287-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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