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JOU 251
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Title: | Media Law and Ethics |
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Course Description: | Studies and interacts with precedent and case studies of statutory law surrounding the journalistic enterprise in America, and the effects of media law on a free and unbridled press. Topics include censorship, defamation, publicity and privacy, free expression, chilling effect, access to information, and press freedom. Students are challenged to think critically about the interpretation and application media law, and to discern between issues of legal media practice and advisable professional ethics. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Origin Notes: | CCD |
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Course Notes: | New course entered 12/5/13 |
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STANDAD COMPETENCIES:
1. Analyze, synthesize, and write critically concerning media law and ethics.
2. Demonstrate the basic systems, principles, and nature of the U.S. legal system.
3. Analyze the legal freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and explain how these freedoms of limitations apply to the practices of advertising, broadcasting, journalism, and public relations.
4. Demonstrate critical thinking about key issues of mass communications law, including libel, invasion of privacy, intellectual property, source confidentiality, journalistic privilege, prior restraint, copyright, publishing rights, and regulation of digital communications.
5. Investigate key legal and ethical issues as they pertain to new media.
6. Explain relevant legal principles and concepts as they apply to hypothetical situations and historical test cases.
7. Identify the implications of violating both criminal and civil law relating to the media, as well as the opportunities and protections that U.S. law affords media practitioners.
8. Identify and apply legally protected rights to gather, prepare, and disseminate information.
9. Demonstrate an understanding of the mass communicator's social and ethical responsibility.
10. Identify potential conflicts between legal and ethical obligations in the practice of advertising, broadcasting, print and digital journalism, and public relations.
11. Apply legal reasoning in evaluating contemporary legal conflicts.
12. Identify and evaluate the courts' past applications of constitutional tests, common law precedent, statutory language, and administrative rules to specific cases.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Introduction to the American Legal System
II. History of Media Law & Ethics
III. Legal & Ethical Issues in News
IV. Legal & Ethical Issues in Political Speech
V. Legal & Ethical Issues in Advertising/Image
VI. Legal & Ethical Issues in Broadcasting
VII. Legal & Ethical Issues in Digital Media
VIII. Legal & Ethical Issues in Entertainment
IX. Legal & Ethical Issues in Photojournalism
X. Legal & Ethical Issues in Publishing
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