MEDA 310 - Media Ethics

Credit(s): 3
3 hours lecture, 3 hours contact
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111
This course asks students to make decisions about the myriad of ethical problems that confront professional journalists as they seek to report the news. Using a philosophical base, the ideas of Aristotle, Kant, Bentham and Mill, an array of ethical problems are posed - problems dealing with journalistic deception, right of privacy and conflicts of interest. Ethical strategies are devised by students to understand and attempt to resolve these problems.