Journalism (J) |
134 Allen Hall, 541-346-3738
School of Journalism & Communication
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G - Pre-major, major, or minor are required to take this course graded to be applied to major/minor requirements
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Course Data
| J 397 Media Ethics >1 |
4.00 cr. |
| Ethical problems in the media: privacy, violence, pornography, truth-telling, objectivity, media codes, public interest, media accountability. |
| Grading Options: |
Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
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| Instructor: |
Phillips W |
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 Prereqs/Comments: |
Prereq: J 201 with a grade better than C-. |
| Course Materials |
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CRN |
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Location |
Instructor |
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36016 |
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150 |
1400-1550 |
tr |
221 ALL |
Phillips W |
!G |
Final Exam: |
1230-1430 |
m 6/12 |
221 ALL |
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Academic Deadlines
| Deadline |
Last day to: |
| April 2: |
Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded) |
| April 8: |
Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| April 8: |
Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| April 9: |
Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded) |
| April 9: |
Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded) |
| April 10: |
Add this course |
| April 10: |
Last day to change to or from audit |
| April 16: |
Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded) |
| April 16: |
Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded) |
| April 23: |
Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded) |
| April 23: |
Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded) |
| April 30: |
Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded) |
| April 30: |
Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded) |
| May 21: |
Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded) |
| May 21: |
Change grading option for this course |
 | You can't drop your last class using the "Add/Drop" menu in DuckWeb. Go to the “Completely Withdraw from Term/University” link to begin the complete withdrawal process. If you need assistance with a complete drop or a complete withdrawal, please contact the Office of Academic Advising, 101 Oregon Hall, 541-346-3211 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday). If you are attempting to completely withdraw after business hours, and have difficulty, please contact the Office of Academic Advising the next business day. |
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Expanded Course Description
| Media professionals spend a great deal of time talking about "doing the right thing." Why is it then that the consumers of mass media perennially find so much fault with the ethics of the disseminators of news, information, and entertainment? Do the media have a special obligation to ethical behavior that ordinary citizens do not; or do they have a special waiver of the basic moral tenets that the rest of us must accept in order that we might have access to a "free marketplace of ideas?" This course is designed to familiarize students with the tools needed to make moral decisions, and to better understand the ethical dilemmas facing mass media today and how to help solve them. Many questions will be asked, and many answers will be discussed. Ultimately, it will be up to the students to draw their own conclusions about the rightness of the answers they choose to accept. Hopefully, they will come away with a greater appreciation for the complexities of making a moral decision and a greater insight into the workings of the mass media. At the very least, they will be forced to develop a personal yardstick by which to measure their ethical decisions.
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