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2013-2014 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
COM 438 - Communication Ethics
An upper-division course for the study of communications ethics. Students explore how language and innocence are mutually exclusive, examine how rhetoric, ideology, and information bear upon social and personal evil, and consider ethics issues relating specifically to communicative media. Focus is directed to the assessment and development of ethical sense-making. Part of the Identity Issue. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
Credits: 3