JOUR 250

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Journalism Ethics & Diversity

Credit: 3 hours.

Focuses on media decision-making and news judgment, specifically ethics and diversity in newsgathering with regard to scope, privacy, bias, economic concerns, and accountability. Examines real-life news decisions and the thoughts of journalists who lived through famous and infamous ethics situations. Key provisions in the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics regarding use of diverse voices will be discussed and applied in practical ways, and both students and the instructor will find current examples of ethics issues to present to the class. Diversity education is part of the required standard for achieving journalism accreditation from the discipline's national accrediting body.

Prerequisite: JOUR 200.

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JOUR 250 class schedule data for fall 2008
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	51738	Lecture-Discussion	A	8:00AM -9:20AM	TR	Noyes Laboratory	Gajda, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Section Info: Note: This course is open to College of Communications majors and premajors and Agricultural Communications majors only. Please note the stated prerequisites. The registration system may temporarily allow you to select this course even if you do not meet the prerequisites, but it eventually will catch this problem and cancel your registration, by which time it may be difficult for you to find an alternative.