Communication and Culture
- To examine the ways in which scientific and critical theories about media are informed by political, cultural, social and economic contexts;
- To address ways in which media technologies, structures and practices are defined, implemented and regulated, as well as the rationales and ideologies behind these strategies;
- To apply these theories to concrete, lived experience and systems of power and identify on the local, national and global levels;
- To heighten the abilities of students to recognize the ethical dimensions of media production, content, and reception and to engage in informed media criticism;
- To improve the abilities of students to think critically, creatively and independently as media producers and consumers;
- To enable students to communicate their ideas and substantiate their beliefs about the mediated environment in which we live within professionals, civic, and personal contexts; and
- To enable students to be ethically responsible communicators and media professionals.
Ethics, Law and Policy Courses
- COMC 3340/ COMM 3103: Freedom of Expression
- COMC 3370/ COMM 3476: Ethical Issues and the Media
- COMC 3330/ COMM 3110: Peace, Justice and the Media
- COMC 3350/ COMM 3112: Media Law
- COMC 3380/ COMM 3106: International Communication
- DTEM 4440: Privacy and Surveillance
- DTEM 4480/ COMM 4005: Digital Media and Public Responsibility
- FITV 4570/ COMM 4001: Films of Moral Struggle