JOUR 2011 course goals

Course Description and Goals

-> Nondiscriminatory Statement
-> List of Readings and Course Materials

This class includes a range of students in their sophomore, junior, and senior years. In this course, all students should find some overlap with course material they have encountered elsewhere in the School, the university, and perhaps even your preparatory school. An important educational goal of this class is to assist you in learning to integrate and synthesize the materials from this class and elsewhere so that you will be able to bring to your professional and personal lives an educated, reflective, critical, and progressive view of the world and your place in it. Throughout this course, you will come to understand the unique opportunities and challenges faced by those who seek to express ideas in the media-related professions today and throughout history, and you will be invited to be an active participant in history as it unfolds in your lifetime.

The course is divided into three weekly meetings: two lecture sessions with Dr. Clark (Monday and Wednesday) and one recitation/discussion session with your teaching assistant (Friday). The recitation sessions will draw on issues raised in the lectures and allow for extensive discussion and in-class exercises. Keeping up with the reading, attending lectures and recitation sessions, and participating in discussions and exercises are essential to doing well in the course.

Dr. Clark and your TA s have several goals for you for this class. There are three general goals:
1. Develop your ability to read critically
2. Practice and improve upon your writing skills
3. Practice your speaking and discussing skills

We also have three learning goals specific to this class:
1. Develop your ability to integrate and synthesize materials from a variety of sources into your own coherent argument
2. Develop an ability to explain the relationship between the profession(s) you’re considering and the cultural and political contexts in which they developed and in which they now exist
3. Provide an opportunity for you to think of yourself as an actor in history, and to consider what role you may want to play in relation to the media


		Course Description and Goals -> Nondiscriminatory Statement -> List of Readings and Course Materials This class includes a range of students in their sophomore, junior, and senior years. In this course, all students should find some overlap with course material they have encountered elsewhere in the School, the university, and perhaps even your preparatory school. An important educational goal of this class is to assist you in learning to integrate and synthesize the materials from this class and elsewhere so that you will be able to bring to your professional and personal lives an educated, reflective, critical, and progressive view of the world and your place in it. Throughout this course, you will come to understand the unique opportunities and challenges faced by those who seek to express ideas in the media-related professions today and throughout history, and you will be invited to be an active participant in history as it unfolds in your lifetime. The course is divided into three weekly meetings: two lecture sessions with Dr. Clark (Monday and Wednesday) and one recitation/discussion session with your teaching assistant (Friday). The recitation sessions will draw on issues raised in the lectures and allow for extensive discussion and in-class exercises. Keeping up with the reading, attending lectures and recitation sessions, and participating in discussions and exercises are essential to doing well in the course. Dr. Clark and your TA s have several goals for you for this class. There are three general goals: 1. Develop your ability to read critically 2. Practice and improve upon your writing skills 3. Practice your speaking and discussing skills We also have three learning goals specific to this class: 1. Develop your ability to integrate and synthesize materials from a variety of sources into your own coherent argument 2. Develop an ability to explain the relationship between the profession(s) you’re considering and the cultural and political contexts in which they developed and in which they now exist 3. Provide an opportunity for you to think of yourself as an actor in history, and to consider what role you may want to play in relation to the media