Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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JOUR 4630 - Media and Conflicts
Explores media coverage of conflicts and crises, including how conflicts and crises occur and how they are mediated, peace journalism, securitization, and conflict management.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate an ability to conduct research and analysis using a variety of sources and to present findings.
- Demonstrate an ability to function as part of a team containing students from a variety of major disciplines.
- Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
- Understand how conflicts escalate, how they can be contained, and why some persist and others do not.
- Understand how new media present and negotiate national and international conflicts and governance.
- Understand the challenges media face in covering internal, state, and international conflicts among others.
- Understand the changing landscapes of media to mitigate, settle, and resolve internal and external conflicts.
- Understand the courses or origins of conflicts and the journalist’s role in peace building.
- Understand the fundamentals of crisis leadership and strategic planning in the changing media landscape.
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