RHET362W

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Telling News: Framing Reality

Civic Communication and Media Humanities Public Health Ethics, Advocacy and Leadership Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics Cinema Studies Willamette College

Course Description

This course examines news accounts as they construct the meaning of the events they report. Students explore how reality is shaped when the media privileges a particular frame for the events; sketches familiar plotlines, characters, or ideologies; or gives authority to some voices and silences others. Finally, the course addresses the effect of media conventionalizing, in the symbolic complexes addressed and the formulaic stories they spawn, on both the range of interpretationS and the range of topics that are publicly addressed.

College/School

Willamette College

Locations

Salem

Offering Cycle, by Year

Odd Years

Offering Cycle, by Semester

Fall Semester