Policies

Attendance, Late Work, etc.

Cheating/Plagiarism

Course Requirements

Electronic and Hard-Copy Formatting for Assignments

Grading Criteria

Syllabus Fall 2007

There is one lesson a week. The lessons go up Friday afternoon and the work for each lesson is due the following Friday before midnight. For more on this, read the course policies. Syllabus is subject to change with notice.

Week One, August 29 - 31

(Yes, this isn't a real week, but then, it's not a real hard lesson.)

Syllabus & Policies Review
Defining Media
Rhetorical Triangle
Worksheet #1 Due

Week Two, August 31 - September 7

The Mass Media
Worksheet #2 Due
Media Now: Chapter 1: "The Changing Media"
Assignment: "The Most Important" Assigned

Week Three, September 7 - 14


Worksheet #3 Due
Media Now: Chapters 7 & 8: "Television" & "Film and Home Video"
Assignment: "The Most Important" Due
Assignment: "Television vs. Print" Assigned

Week Four, September 14-28

Newspapers as the First Mass Medium
Who's Making Whom? (The Chicken and the Egg Media Question)
Worksheet #4 Due
Media Now: Chapter 4: "Newspapers"

Week Five, September 28 - October 5

If Print is Dead, Why Is it Still So Popular?
Worksheet #5 Due
Media Now: Chapters 3 & 2: "Books and Magazines" and "Media and Society"
Assignment: "Television vs. Print" Due

Week Six, October 5 - 12

Media Now: Chapters 6 & 9: "Radio" & "The Internet"
Worksheet #6 Due
Assignment: "Interactive Democracy or Garbage Dump?" Assigned

Week Seven, October 12 - 19

MIDTERM

Week Eight, October 19-26

Media Now: Chapter 12: "The Communications Infrastructure," Chapter 11: "Advertising"
Worksheet #7/#8 Due
Assignment: "Interactive Democracy or Garbage Dump?" Due
Assignment: "Making Money, Making Policy" Assigned

Week Nine, October 26 - November 2

Worksheet #9 Due
Media Now: Chapter 13: "Media Uses and Effects"

Week Ten, November 2 - 9

Group Project with Worksheet #10
Media Now: Chapter 15: "Media Ethics"

Week Eleven, November 9 - 16

Worksheet #11 Due
Media Now:
Chapters 5 & 14: "Recorded Music" & "Media Policy and Law"

Week Twelve, November 16 - 23

Worksheet #12 Due
Media Now: Chapters 10 & 16: "Public Relations"
and "Global Communications Media"
Assignment: "Making Money, Making Policy" Due

Final Project Assigned

December 7

Final Project Due