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.

JOUR 180: FS: Revolution and the Written Word (3). First-Year Seminar. Prerequisite: First-year class standing. This seminar builds an understanding of how written works, transmitted by evolving technologies, can catalyze revolutionary change and also shape outsiders’ understanding of revolutions in progress. Through study of the works themselves, students explore the animating ideas and historical conditions that produced these revolutions, helping to establish a general literacy in modern political development. Class discussion concentrates on the role of the writer, the character of the writing itself, and the impact on intended audiences and others. (HU) Brisbane. Winter 2014 only

Fall 2013 Topic:

JOUR 180: FS: Politics, the Press and the Public (3). First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-Year standing. The news media have been intertwined with elections since our country’s founding. In the 21st century, though, media messages bombard us around the clock from myriad new devices and sources. In this highly interactive seminar, first-year students examine these messages through real-time monitoring of advertising and campaign coverage of the 2013 Virginia’s governor’s race (and other fall races) and, after Election Day, close analysis of the outcomes. (HU) Finch