Thursday, October 12, 2017

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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