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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Theory of agitation; agitation as force for change in existing institutions and policies in democratic society. Intensive study of selected agitational movements and technique and content of their communications. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Identification of how motivation and creativity interact with business interest, research, and policies in producing entertainment for media market. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Study of trial and appellate processes as systems of communication. Analysis of elements of juridical process as they affect quality of communication content. Study of rules of evidence, jury behavior, and structure of legal discourse. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 101. Exploration of relationship between freedoms of speech and press and values of liberty, self-realization, selfgovernment, truth, dignity, respect, justice, equality, association, and community. Study of significance of these values examined in connection with issues such as obscenity, defamation, access to media, and control of commercial, corporate, and government speech. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Various media offer different comparative advantages/disadvantages for transmission of messages. Specific kinds of print, video, and new media offer opportunities and problems when content is complex and/or scholarly. Development of mediacomplexity typologies. Exploration of scholarly works of famed philosophers, sociologists, and communication theorists. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Study of American jury trial system as communication process. Examination of impact of courtroom television, paid jury consultants, and celebrity prosecutions on system's communication dynamics and search for truth. Review of communication research and empirical data in effort to decide whether American jury system places too much emphasis on winning and not enough on seeking truth. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Introduction to methods and problems of criticism in public arts. Study of several types of critical methods: formalistic, analogue, pragmatic, and aesthetic criticism. Topics include definition of art and criticism, aesthetic media, genre and resources of film, television, theater, and public discourse, varieties of critical method, problems of critical judgment. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Visual communication reaches diverse audiences in communicating major social and political topics. Cartoons, posters, murals, and documentary photography have had powerful world impact. Survey of all four genres of visual communications as features of modern mass media. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Intensive study of law of defamation and its relationship to free flow of information in democracy. Examination of rationale, scope, and effects of libel laws. Topics include application of libel laws to public official, public figure, and private plaintiffs and media and nonmedia defendants; group libel, privileged libel, and libelous fiction. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examination of nature of propaganda, institutional structure of American media, and relationship between propaganda and American news media. History of propaganda in America from World War I era forward, competing theories of democracy and media, and role of corporations in propaganda and news. Letter grading.
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