JMC 67003 - Teaching Journalism Ethics - 3 hours

This course builds on the brief introduction to ethics provided in JMC 60012 Mass Communication Law and Ethics. It delves more deeply into ethical issues faced by scholastic journalism teachers, advisers, their students and school administrators. Due to conflicting court decisions and pressure from society to limit student expression, scholastic media advisers and teachers not only have to understand legal and ethical issues but also how to demonstrate to others the importance of student journalists portraying their roles as responsible and informed citizens, in other words, to clearly make ethical decisions enhancing their program. Knowledge of ethical theories and how those apply to decision-making is a vital skill they will develop.