10/27/2016
Killam Visiting Professor Linden MacIntyre (sponsored by Canadian Studies) will be offering this course in the spring. It would be great to have some SJL students have a chance to take it.
No prereqs. The end time is not shown here, but it would be about 4:30 or so.
COMM 399-002 Social Justice Tradition in Investigative Journalism W 1:50 PM Macintyre –
This seminar course examines the ways in which investigative journalists in the US and Canada in recent years have pursued “social justice.” Topics will include: Political Correctness and public conversations on race, gender and sexuality, power and freedom; Public policy on health care, gun control, war and peace; the administration of justice from cops to courts; Authoritarianism and violence, including public attitudes regarding migration, terrorism, personal dissent, bullying; Contemporary communication, including lying as a form of advocacy and the role of journalism in the pursuit of objective “truth”; Democracy in an environment shaped by sentiment (fear, grievance, insecurity, resentment; nostalgia); the Human Habitat, how personal choices affect our collective future; and, finally, American Exceptionalism— exceptional entitlement or exceptional responsibility?
