2011-2012 University Catalog 
    
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JOUR 180 - FS: First-year Seminar


Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.



First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. Topics for Fall 2011:

JOUR 180-02: FS: The Press and the Civil Rights Movement (3). First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. This seminar examines the news media’s role in the Civil Rights Movement of the South in the 1950s and ‘60s. Documentary recordings, individual research in primary documents, and readings in the journalism of the period and in works of history (especially the Pulitzer-Prize winning 2006 book The Race Beat) will provide the basis for class discussions. Students will produce short papers on the readings, an oral history project on veteran journalist who covered the movement, a research paper and a magazine-style article. Eligible: Limited to 15 first-year students. (HU) Cumming.





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