Course details

Name: JOUR - 216

Title: HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN AMERICA

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2016

Credits: 3

Description:
EQUIVALENT TO ENJR 216 for students who declared the Journalism minor prior to Fall 2015.
We'll study the history of commercial print newspapers in the United States from the Colonial period to the present day, with concentration on the post-World War II period and the present, using primary texts, analytical articles, and selected readings of journalism criticism from the 19th century on. We'll concentrate on continuing major issues in journalism: the concept of objectivity; the impact of advertising; the importance of the concentration of ownership ("monopolization") of newspapers and the news media generally; the relations among journalism, corporate, and governmental elites; the press during wartime; mass media and the manipulation of popular consciousness; propaganda analysis.


Last updated on 2015-10-30 By Furr Grover (furrg)

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

Teaching Faculty: Furr Grover (furrg)

Is course canceled: No