Syllabus Tweaked

Week Eight      The rise of objectivity as the principal   

10.9.2017          journalism norm. Complicity in power: questioning

                          objectivity.

 Week Nine         (No Tuesday class) Review for Midterm, which will be

10.16.2017          Tuesday, 10/24. Assignment:  Second essay is due in class

                            Tuesday, 10/31.

                         

Week Ten            Assignment: Read excerpts from Janet Malcolm’s “The

10.23.2017            Journalist and the Murderer,” on which there will be a quiz.

                              Privacy: “A journalist is always selling someone

                              out - Joan Didion.  When journalism becomes “nonfiction,”

                              does it acquire the privileges – and the excuses – of

                              art?

                             Additional Assignments: Begin Discussion of term paper. No

                             Reading Response is required. Tentative term paper ideas are due

                             Thursday, 11/2. Lit Review is due Thursday, 11/16

         

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