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  • JOUR 180: FS: First-year Seminar

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: First-year standing Topics for Fall 2010: JOUR 180: FS: Covering Great Trials in History: The Impact of the Press and the Public on Justice (3). First-year seminar. From the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the Scopes “Monkey” Trial to Charles Manson and O.J. Simpson, Americans have long been fascinated by the high-profile trial. Often in dramatic fashion, trials reveal our deepest secrets by exposing the weaknesses, violent tendencies, and obsessions of people we thought were worthy of our respect or our fear. Through famous cases, this seminar examines the complexities of the conflict between two cornerstones of American democracy: the freedom of the press and the right to a fair trial. The course is taught by Reynolds Professor of Legal Reporting Toni Locy, who has covered federal courts, the Justice Department, and the U.S. Supreme Court for several national news organizations. (SS5) Locy JOUR 180B: FS: The Press and the Civil Rights Movement (3). First-year seminar. This seminar examines the news media’s role in the Civil Rights Movement of the South in the 1950s and ‘60s. Documentary recordings, individual research in primary documents, and readings in the journalism of the period and in works of history (especially the Pulitzer-Prize winning 2006 book The Race Beat) will provide the basis for class discussions. Students will produce short papers on the readings, an oral history project on veteran journalist who covered the movement, a research paper and a magazine-style article. Eligible: Limited to 15 first-year students. Cumming.
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  • JOUR 190: Beyond Google and Wikipedia: Finding and Evaluating Information Sources in the Digital Age

    1.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    An introduction to information sources that academic researchers, journalists, public relations and advertising professionals rely on increasingly in the digital age to conduct scholarly research, report and write news stories, and to find, analyze and present research on trends in mass communications. Students learn how to evaluate sources of information for credibility and quality, while they strengthen their basic research skills to go beyond Google and dig below the surface of today’s high-tech world. Grefe, Journalism faculty.
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  • JOUR 201: Introduction to Reporting

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: JOUR 101. Prerequisite or corequisite: POL 100, 101, 105 or 203. The principles and techniques of information gathering and news writing, with emphasis on fulfilling the role of the news media in a democratic society. Extensive laboratory work preparing assignments for print, electronic and online media, stressing accuracy, clarity and the appropriate use of the different media. Staff.
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  • JOUR 202: Introduction to Digital Journalism

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: JOUR 201. Concepts and practices of news gathering and presentation in a multimedia, interactive environment. Combines classroom instruction with a converged news media lab in which students contribute to a website, television newscast, and newspaper. Note: The laboratory requirement is limited to three sessions during the term, as arranged with the instructor. Artwick.
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  • JOUR 210: Sports Journalism

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. A seminar surveying, analyzing, and critiquing local, regional, national and international converged sports reporting and writing by working sports journalist. In addition, students read and analyze several longer pieces by working journalists, and write extensively. de Maria.
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  • JOUR 212: The Journalist in Fiction and Film

    4.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Since the time of Sophocles, at least, citizens have been tempted to “kill the messenger.” Those bearing news are often at odds with the citizens to whom they bring the news. This class explores the tension between citizens and modern-day messengers by reading and viewing fictional depictions of journalists. Students examine the role of popular culture in forming myths, stereotypes and false expectations of journalists - and other groups - to understand better the role of journalists in a free society. Luecke.
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  • JOUR 214: The Vietnam War and the Journalists Who Covered It: 1961-1975

    4.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Appropriate for non-majors. A critical in-depth study of reporting and reporters during the Vietnam Conflict from the death of the first American military adviser to South Vietnam’s last hours. Students meet at least one journalist who covered the conflict and are exposed to numerous examples of journalists’ work. Student write essays and an inclusive final project or research essay. de Maria.
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  • JOUR 216: The Press and The Civil Rights Movement

    4.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Journalism 101 or permission of the instructor. Appropriate for history majors or African-American studies students. This research seminar examines the press’s role in the Civil Rights Movement of the South in the 1950s and ‘60s. It includes a 10-day tour of key sites of the movement and archives related to its history (Greensboro, Atlanta, Birmingham and Nashville), oral-history interviews with press veterans, readings, discussions, and proposals for a research paper and a magazine article. Cumming
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  • JOUR 218: Online Speech: Refuges, Harbors and Perils

    4.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: JOUR 101 or sophomore standing. An examination of how the marketplace of ideas created on the World Wide Web impacts, impedes, and affects our communication and discernment abilities through looking at the laws that empower, encourage, and inhibit these abilities on the Web. The online experience includes clashes of interests, conflicts between content producers and content users, issues of privacy and defamation, and amplified roles and effects of anonymous speech in the society. Students examine how courts and lawmakers have dealt with these conflicts, the kinds of public policies engendered, and the effects on the First Amendment. Specific cases include controversies involving Google, YouTube, MySpace, Craigslist, etc. and legislative instruments such as the DMCA and the CDA. This seminar focuses on online speech as it affects defamation, privacy, anonymity, pornography, social networking, and citizen journalism. While technical knowledge is not required to take the class, students must be willing to actively participate in class projects. Abah.
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  • JOUR 221: Communication in Global Perspectives

    4.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. Analyses of communication between cultures and nations, the notion of cultural and civil citizenship, consideration of cultural imperatives in international studies, and critical examination of the impact of information technologies in world politics. This course is designed to foster an appreciation of the role of information in different societies, to give students an understanding of the different philosophies of the role of media in civil governance, and to enable students to gain a thorough understanding of the multidisciplinary nature of global communications. Abah.
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