2013-2014 University Catalog 
    
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Course Descriptions


 

Japanese

  
  • JAPN 101 - Exploring Japanese Language and Society


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Not offered in 2012-2013.

    This course is an introduction to spoken Japanese. Students develop basic oral communication skills and are introduced to the three writing systems. Through cultural scenarios, media presentations, and film, students explore how language functions in contemporary Japanese society. This course is not a prerequisite for JAPN 111, nor does it allow a student to move to a language course numbered higher than JAPN 111 without permission of the instructor. Ujie.



  
  • JAPN 111 - First-Year Japanese I


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Fall

    An introduction to spoken and written Japanese. Classroom drills, written and audio materials emphasize basic sentence patterns. Daily practice in reading and writing. Staff.



  
  • JAPN 112 - First-Year Japanese II


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisite: JAPN 111 or the equivalent. A continuation of JAPN 111. Further work on modern spoken and written Japanese. Staff.



  
  • JAPN 115 - Supervised Study Abroad: First-Year Japanese


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years

    Prerequisites: JAPN 112, permission of the department, and approval of the International Education Committee. Spring Term Abroad course. This course is designed to improve active oral proficiency in Japanese, to introduce the culture and society of Japan, and to prepare students for second-year Japanese study. Classes are held at the Ishikawa Foundation for International Exchange, a prestigious Japanese institution in Kanazawa. Students live with a host family and can experience typical Japanese daily life. The program includes field trips to points of historical interest and many cultural activities. Ujie.



  
  • JAPN 261 - Second-Year Japanese I


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisite: JAPN 112 or the equivalent. A continuation of JAPN 112 with emphasis on the spoken language and written texts using audiovisual materials. Staff.



  
  • JAPN 262 - Second-Year Japanese II


    FDR: FL
    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisite: JAPN 261 or the equivalent. A continuation of JAPN 261 with intensive drills in spoken Japanese and the close reading of texts. Staff.



  
  • JAPN 265 - Supervised Study Abroad: Second-Year Japanese


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years

    Prerequisites: JAPN 261 or 262, permission of the department, and approval of the International Education Committee. Spring Term Abroad course. This course is designed to introduce the Japanese language and culture to students, to introduce the culture and society of Japan, and to prepare students for third-year Japanese study. Classes are held at the Ishikawa Foundation for International Exchange, a prestigious Japanese institution in Kanazawa. Students live with a host family and can experience typical Japanese daily life. The program includes field trips to points of historical interest and many cultural activities. Ujie.



  
  • JAPN 301 - Third-Year Japanese I


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisite: JAPN 262 or the equivalent. A continuation of JAPN 262 designed to further develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Advanced classroom drills, reading texts, and taped materials provide systematic practice in increasingly complex discourses and acquaint students with key aspects of Japanese customs, culture, and society. Staff.



  
  • JAPN 302 - Third-Year Japanese II


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisite: JAPN 301 or the equivalent. A continuation of JAPN 301. Staff.



  
  • JAPN 311 - Advanced Japanese I


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisites: JAPN 302 or the equivalent and instructor consent. Advanced readings, discussion in Japanese and written responses to a variety of literary materials, including relevant journal and newspaper articles. Whenever available, video materials will supplement readings. Staff.



  
  • JAPN 312 - Advanced Japanese II


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisites: JAPN 311 or the equivalent and instructor consent. A continuation of JAPN 311 with an emphasis on reading and discussing literary works. Advanced readings in Japanese modern prose, poetry, and drama and discussion in Japanese of literature and literary criticism. Ikeda.



  
  • JAPN 365 - Supervised Study Abroad: Third Year Japanese


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years

    Prerequisites: JAPN 302, or the equivalent, permission of the department, and approval of the International Education Committee. Spring Term Abroad course. This course is designed to introduce the Japanese language and culture to students, to introduce the culture and society of Japan, and to prepare students for fourth-year Japanese study. Classes are held at the Ishikawa Foundation for International Exchange, a prestigious Japanese institution in Kanazawa. Students live with a host family and can experience typical Japanese daily life. The program includes field trips to points of historical interest and many cultural activities. Ujie.



  
  • JAPN 401 - Directed Individual Study


    Credits: 1
    Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

    Prerequisites: Instructor consent; for advanced students or for students who have completed JAPN 312. A course that allows students to follow a program of directed reading with a more intensive exposure to written texts than is possible in courses oriented toward grammar and conversation. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.



  
  • JAPN 402 - Directed Individual Study


    Credits: 2
    Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

    Prerequisites: Instructor consent; for advanced students or for students who have completed JAPN 312. A course that allows students to follow a program of directed reading with a more intensive exposure to written texts than is possible in courses oriented toward grammar and conversation. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.



  
  • JAPN 403 - Directed Individual Study


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

    Prerequisites: Instructor consent; for advanced students or for students who have completed JAPN 312. A course that allows students to follow a program of directed reading with a more intensive exposure to written texts than is possible in courses oriented toward grammar and conversation. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.




Journalism and Mass Communications

  
  • JOUR 101 - Introduction to Mass Communications


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall, Winter

    Prerequisite: Not open to seniors. This course serves as a gateway for both majors and non-majors to examine the role that the mass media play in society. The course examines the pervasiveness of mass media in our lives, and the history and roles of different media and their societal functions, processes, and effects. Students learn to tell the difference between fact and opinion and examine the links among theory, research and professional experience, while analyzing the ethics, methods, and motivations of the media and the expectations of their audiences. We discuss how media cover diversity issues and evaluate the policies and freedoms that guide and shape the mass media and the news media in the United States. Students complete the course as better informed consumers and interpreters of mass media and their messages. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 152 - Photojournalism


    Credits: 1
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisite: JOUR 201. An introduction to photojournalism. Through hands-on assignments, students learn the importance of visual images in communicating ideas and information and gain an appreciation for the qualities and principles that set photojournalists apart from other photographers Staff.



  
  • 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. Winter 2014 Topic:

    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



  
  • JOUR 190 - Beyond Google and Wikipedia: Finding and Evaluating Information Sources in the Digital Age


    Credits: 1
    Planned Offering: Fall, Winter

    An introduction to information sources that academic researchers, journalists, public relations and advertising professionals rely on increasingly in the digital age to conduct scholarly research, report and write news stories, and to find, analyze and present research on trends in mass communications. Students learn how to evaluate sources of information for credibility and quality, while they strengthen their basic research skills to go beyond Google and dig below the surface of today’s high-tech world. Grefe, Journalism faculty.



  
  • JOUR 201 - Introduction to Reporting


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall, Winter

    Prerequisite: JOUR 101. The principles and techniques of information gathering and news writing, with emphasis on fulfilling the role of the news media in a democratic society. Extensive laboratory work preparing assignments for print, electronic and online media, stressing accuracy, clarity and the appropriate use of the different media. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 202 - Introduction to Digital Journalism


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall, Winter

    Prerequisite: JOUR 201. Concepts and practices of news gathering and presentation in a multimedia, interactive environment. Combines classroom instruction with a converged news media lab in which students contribute to a website, television newscast, and newspaper. Note: The laboratory requirement is limited to three sessions during the term, as arranged with the instructor. Artwick, Locy.



  
  • JOUR 210 - Sports Journalism


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisite: Instructor consent. A seminar surveying, analyzing, and critiquing local, regional, national and international converged sports reporting and writing by working sports journalist. In addition, students read and analyze several longer pieces by working journalists, and write extensively. de Maria.



  
  • JOUR 212 - The Journalist in Fiction and Film


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years

    Since the time of Sophocles, at least, citizens have been tempted to “kill the messenger.” Those bearing news are often at odds with the citizens to whom they bring the news. This class explores the tension between citizens and modern-day messengers by reading and viewing fictional depictions of journalists. Students examine the role of popular culture in forming myths, stereotypes and false expectations of journalists - and other groups - to understand better the role of journalists in a free society. Luecke.



  
  • JOUR 214 - The Vietnam War and the Journalists Who Covered It: 1961-1975


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring 2012

    Appropriate for non-majors. A critical in-depth study taught on campus and in Vietnam of reporting and reporters during the Vietnam Conflict, from the death of the first American military adviser to South Vietnam’s last hours. Students meet journalists who covered the conflict on both sides and are exposed to numerous examples of journalists’ work, through readings, class visits, and documentaries and films. In Vietnam, students receive instruction on the war from the Vietnamese perspective through a series of lectures and tours to heighten the students’ knowledge of the war and the country’s progress since the cessation of hostilities. Students write essays and an inclusive final project or research essay. de Maria.



  
  • JOUR 215 - The Magazine: Past, Present, Future


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years.

    Magazines are probably the most resilient mass medium we have, which is good news in the digital age. Even though the magazine business was hit hard in recent years, a look at its past and future is far more cheering. In this class, students learn how to investigate a magazine from the past as a way of doing history, and of understanding the magazine business from the inside. They also learn from current magazine editors, writers, and publishers what it takes to create, produce, and sustain a magazine. And they create a team, with the other students in the class, to produce a tablet-ready digital “magazine of the future. Cumming.



  
  • JOUR 216 - The Press and The Civil Rights Movement


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring

    Prerequisite: Journalism 101 or instructor consent. Appropriate for history majors or African-American studies students. This research seminar examines the press’s role in the Civil Rights Movement of the South in the 1950s and ‘60s. It includes a 10-day tour of key sites of the movement and archives related to its history (Greensboro, Atlanta, Birmingham and Nashville), oral-history interviews with press veterans, readings, discussions, and proposals for a research paper and a magazine article. Cumming



  
  • JOUR 218 - Online Speech: Refuges, Harbors and Perils


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years

    Prerequisite: JOUR 101 or sophomore standing. An examination of how the marketplace of ideas created on the World Wide Web impacts, impedes, and affects our communication and discernment abilities through looking at the laws that empower, encourage, and inhibit these abilities on the Web. The online experience includes clashes of interests, conflicts between content producers and content users, issues of privacy and defamation, and amplified roles and effects of anonymous speech in the society. Students examine how courts and lawmakers have dealt with these conflicts, the kinds of public policies engendered, and the effects on the First Amendment. Specific cases include controversies involving Google, YouTube, MySpace, Craigslist, etc. and legislative instruments such as the DMCA and the CDA. This seminar focuses on online speech as it affects defamation, privacy, anonymity, pornography, social networking, and citizen journalism. While technical knowledge is not required to take the class, students must be willing to actively participate in class projects. Abah.



  
  • JOUR 221 - Communication in Global Perspectives


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring 2012 and alternate years

    Prerequisite: JOUR 101. Open to majors and non-majors. This course examines how the marketplace of ideas created by the Web impacts, impedes, and affects our communication and discernment abilities by looking at the laws that empower, encourage, and inhibit these abilities on the Web. Abah.



  
  • JOUR 225 - Crisis Communications


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisite: At least junior standing. A case-study approach to current methods of forecasting problems and responding effectively to crises and consequences in the public and private sectors. Topics include identifying and communicating effectively with stakeholders during crises, effective media-relations strategies during emergencies, building an effective crisis-response plan, regaining public credibility following a crisis, and avoiding public relations mistakes during litigation. Abah.



  
  • JOUR 231 - Communication Theory


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. A critical overview of leading theoretical traditions in communication studies. Examination of the concepts of general and thematic theories in use, describing the similarities and differences among the concepts and applying them in practical situations. Some attention is paid to epistemological foundations, the structure of communication theory as a field, and examining the relationship between communication theory and sociocultural practice. Artwick.



  
  • JOUR 232 - Research Methods in Mass Communication


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. This course introduces students to the systematic study of communication, including quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in both theory-building and applied contexts. Students examine the research process, conceptualization, design, measurement, and analysis. Modes of inquiry studied include survey research, content analysis, experimental research, focus groups, depth interviewing, ethnography, and historical research. The class also engages students in a research project that may serve a local nonprofit agency. Artwick.



  
  • JOUR 234 - A Sense of Place: Multimedia News Features


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring

    Prerequisite: JOUR 201 or instructor consent. This writing and reporting class creates an intensely experiential setting for students to “learn by doing” one of the more elusive but rewarding aspects of journalistic feature writing: writing about a place. Interspersed with relevant readings in literary journalism and short exercises in nonfiction writing and multi-media storytelling, assignments will have students drive out of Lexington, anywhere from five to 50 miles, to spend most of a day in a spot on the map. Their stories about such places are produced online in print, audio, and digital photography. Cumming.



  
  • JOUR 240 - Poverty in the Media


    Credits: 3
    Not open to students with credit for JOUR 241. No Prerequisites; appropriate for non-majors. An in-depth examination of portrayals of poverty, chiefly in the United States, from the late 19th century to the present through an intensive review of distinguished print journalism, nonfiction books, documentary film, and movies. By consulting social science literature as well, students gain a deeper understanding of the various conceptual paradigms through which poverty has been understood and explained. Counts as part of the Shepherd Program in Poverty and Human Capability Staff.



  
  • JOUR 241 - Media and Poverty: The Poor in Journalism and Film


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring

    Not open to students with credit for JOUR 240. This course offers an in-depth examination of portrayals of poverty, chiefly in the United States, from the late 19th century to the present through an intensive review of distinguished print journalism, nonfiction books, documentary film, and movies. By consulting social science literature as well, students gain a deeper understanding of the various conceptual paradigms through which poverty has been understood and explained. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 242 - Media Ownership and Control


    FDR: SS5
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisite: At least junior standing or instructor consent. This course explores the relationship between what the media do and how they are owned and run. It examines the influence of market pressures and state regulation, and asks how commercial objectives affect the media’s ability to meet their traditional responsibilities within a democratic society, as a forum for discourse, an organ of accountability and a means by which popular culture is sustained. Although the chief focus is on news media, the course also looks at the entertainment industries and the Internet as increasingly integrated parts of a consolidated media system and as interpreters of social and political realities. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 253 - Beat Reporting for Print and Online Media


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Fall, Winter

    Prerequisite: JOUR 202. Simulated daily newsroom laboratory stressing news judgment, information gathering, and journalistic writing under deadline pressure. Using the community as the laboratory, students develop competence in the principles and techniques of print-media and Internet communications in a democratic society. All work is produced in the computerized laboratory newsroom. (Meets concurrently with JOUR 263.) Staff.



  
  • JOUR 263 - Beat Reporting for Broadcast and Online Media


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Fall, Winter

    Prerequisite: JOUR 202. Continuing development of news judgment, information gathering, and news presentation for the electronic media. Students develop competence in the principles and techniques of beat reporting for radio, television and the Internet. (Meets concurrently with JOUR 253.) Staff.



  
  • JOUR 266 - Cross-Cultural Documentary Filmmaking


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring

    The United States is a melting pot of nationalities and cultures. As people move to the U. S. from other countries they go through cross-cultural adaptation, and identity becomes an issue for everyone. Students in this course work in three-person teams to produce five-minute documentaries on cross-cultural adaptation by an ethnic community in our region or by selected international students at Washington and Lee. Students are expected to immerse themselves in learning about the home countries and current communities of their subjects. The course includes instruction in the techniques of documentary film-making, allowing student to develop their writing, storytelling, shooting and editing skills. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 270 - Digital Media and Society


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring

    Facebook, YouTube, and iPhones are popular, if not essential elements in college students’ busy lives. Being born into the digital age, students have grown up with profound and rapidly-changing media and communication technologies, yet likely take them for granted. This course takes an in-depth look at digital media, exploring the relationship between technology and social change. The concept of technological determinism guides our examination of social networking, online news/information, digital entertainment, and health online. Artwick.



  
  • JOUR 273 - Principles of Public Relations


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisite: JOUR 201. This class focuses on understanding what public relations is and what those who practice public relations do. Students examine the origins of public relations, the nature and role of public relations, the major influences that affect organizational behavior, the ethics of public relations, and the professional development of public-relations professionals. Emphasis is placed on the planning, writing, and management functions, working with media and developing effective public-relations strategies. Hanna.



  
  • JOUR 280 - Covering Courts and the Law


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisites: At least junior standing. Appropriate for non-majors. Courthouses make the best beats by providing a window on what is important to the American people. This course introduces students to the U.S. court system, its players, language and impact on the public at large. Students learn how to identify newsworthy legal stories, read court documents, and make sense of them in order to write clear, compelling, fair and accurate news stories for mass audiences. Locy.



  
  • JOUR 295 - Topics in Journalism and Mass Communications


    Credits: 3 credits in Fall or Winter; 4 credits in Spring
    Planned Offering: Offered when departmental resources permit.



    Study of a selected topic in journalism or mass communications. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Appropriate for non-majors.

    Spring 2014 Topic:

    JOUR 295: Journalism That Changes the World (4). In the social media and on broadcast talk shows, you can’t escape criticism of the news media. It’s easy to wonder: Don’t journalists get anything right? In this course, we examine cases in which journalists not only got the facts right (they usually do), but their reporting gave the public extremely important and detailed information about the nation and the world. The course includes extensive reading and viewing of important examples of extra-dimension journalism that offers far more than a mere chronicle of the day’s events. Students engage in a probing analysis of what they have read and seen, and imagine themselves in the place of the journalists who carried out the reporting and photography, becoming aware of the obstacles that those journalists faced and how they were overcome. Through Skype and in-person interviews during a field trip to Washington, D.C., students have an opportunity to hear and question several of the journalists who were behind journalism that changes the world. (HU) Foreman. Spring 2014 only

    Winter 2014 Topic:

    JOUR 295: National Security v. Freedom of Speech “or of the Press” (3). Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. From the nation’s beginnings, America’s government, its people, and news media have struggled during conflict at home and abroad to live up to the principles enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. This course focuses on responses by government officials and the public to dissent – from the nation’s early days to today’s War on Terrorism – and examines the impact of digital advances on whistleblowing, government surveillance of citizens, and the future of privacy, online and elsewhere. In addition to learning about the issue, students experiment with tools and techniques that reporters and their sources can use to protect the newsgathering process and that citizens can employ to preserve privacy in the digital age. Locy. Winter 2014



  
  • JOUR 296 - Topics in News Media History


    Credits: 3 in fall, winter; 4 in spring
    Planned Offering: Spring 2012

    Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. This course uses a variety of research methods to explore a particular era or focus in the history of the American press. Past topics, likely to be offered again on a rotating basis, have been on civil rights coverage in the South since 1945 and on early American newspapers as represented by the 18th- and 19th-century newspapers in W&L’s Farrar Collection. Open to non-majors.



  
  • JOUR 297 - Topics in Public Science


    Credits: 3
    Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Open to nonmajors. Co-taught interdisciplinary study of selected issues in science or social science and how those issues are presented to the public by the news media. This course gives a basic presentation of research and other information about particular topics. The emphasis is on how a journalist would find this information, evaluate the quality of various sources, and create a meaningful written presentation that contributes to public understanding. Student work involves extensive writing. Richardson, Staff from a science discipline.



  
  • JOUR 301 - Law and Communications


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall, Winter

    Prerequisite: Junior standing. An examination of the development of First Amendment jurisprudence, the law of defamation, privacy, access, free press-fair trial, journalists’ privilege, obscenity and pornography. The case study approach is used, but the emphasis is on the principles that underlie the landmark cases. This course can serve as an introduction to and preparation for further studies in communications law and/or the legal system in general. Abah.



  
  • JOUR 303 - Covering Great Trials in History: The Impact of the Press and Public on Justice


    FDR: HU
    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years.

    Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. From the Salem Witch Trials and the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping to the Charles Manson Family and O.J. Simpson, Americans have long been fascinated by crime and punishment. Rich or poor, admired or scorned, defendants in high-profile trials captivate the public because they illuminate our potential for good and evil by revealing our hopes, dreams, and fears at a particular time in history. Often in dramatic fashion, trials expose society’s weaknesses by dissecting the violent tendencies and obsessions of the people we thought were worthy of our respect or our fear. But does this obsession with the law serve the greater good? Are prosecutors playing on the public’s fears? Are judges doing enough to ensure fair trials? Are defense attorneys serving their clients-or themselves? Does the press, in sensational, simplistic coverage, do more harm than good? And is the public becoming disillusioned with the American legal system? This course examines these issues by placing great trials in their context in history and exploring the complexities of the conflict between the freedom of the press and the ideal of a fair trial. Locy.



  
  • JOUR 318 - The Literature of Journalism


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter 2014

    Appropriate for nonmajors. A study of the seminal writings in American journalism, focusing on their literary styles, their influence in the development of American journalism, and their impact on U.S. history. Cumming.



  
  • JOUR 319 - Mass Media and Society


    Credits: 3
    Prerequisite: At least junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A review of the current research into and theories of how people use the mass media, emphasizing the impact of the mass media on public knowledge, attitudes, and discourse. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of mass media to other cultural institutions. Richardson.



  
  • JOUR 320 - Covering Crime and Justice: A Practicum


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring

    This course exposes students to how the news media cover the three branches of government as they act separately and in concert in dealing with crime and justice. Through the creation of a Washington and Lee “courts bureau” in Washington, students spend five days covering “real” cases in “real” time in the D.C. District Court, arguably one of the nation’s most important federal trial courts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, which is widely considered second in importance only to the U.S. Supreme Court. Students learn how courts are structured, how they work, and how the press covers the Judiciary as it interacts with the other two branches of government in the administration of justice. Locy.



  
  • JOUR 338 - The Documentary


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisite: Junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A critical study of the documentary in film and television, with analysis of prominent directors and genres. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 344 - Ethics of Journalism


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisite: POL 203 and at least junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A study of the moral issues arising from the practice of modern journalism and communications. Includes examination of philosophical and theoretical foundations of ethics, the place and role of journalism in the larger society, and moral choices in the newsroom. Topics include: First Amendment freedoms, privacy, confidentiality of sources, conflicts of interest, cooperation with law enforcement, free press/fair trial, photojournalism, and issues of accountability. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 345 - Media Ethics


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and at least junior standing. This course enables students to explore ethical challenges that arise within the various communication practices of contemporary media: journalism, public relations, advertising, documentary film, blogging and fictional programming. The course offers a grounding in moral reasoning and an understanding of professional ethics as an evolving response to changing social and industrial conditions in the media industries. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 351 - Editing for Print and Online Media


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and at least junior standing. The principles and techniques of editing copy and producing publications for the print media and the World Wide Web, with emphasis on clarity of thought, legal and moral responsibilities, and effective communication. Extensive laboratory work. Attention is given to the latest computer-based production and editing applications, as students participate in producing prototype newspaper pages, the Rockbridge Report cablecast and website. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 353 - Opinion Writing


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years

    Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. Appropriate for majors and nonmajors. Opinion writing is growing in popularity and importance, though much of it is derivative and shrill. This course develops students’ ability to write opinion based on fact and reasoned argument across a range of genres, including editorial writing, column writing, criticism, and blogging. Currency in public affairs is emphasized along with building skills in persuasion, formulating coherent positions, developing voice and encouraging civil dialogue. The course is highly interactive and participatory. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 356 - In-depth Reporting


    Credits: 4
    Planned Offering: Spring

    Prerequisite: JOUR 351 or 362 or instructor consent. The principles and techniques of developing and creating enterprising, heavily researched journalistic work for the mass media. Students produce in-depth work for newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the World Wide Web. Extensive group work is required. Richardson.



  
  • JOUR 357 - Magazine Feature Writing


    Credits: 3
    Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. The principles and techniques of developing and polishing long-form journalistic articles for print media. Extensive writing and reporting are required. Cumming.



  
  • JOUR 362 - Producing for Broadcast and Online Media


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall, Winter

    Prerequisite: JOUR 253 or 263 and at least junior standing. Preparation for leadership roles in electronic media. Extensive work in decision making and management in the newsroom through television news producing and Internet content construction. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 365 - The Broadcast News Magazine


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisite: JOUR 201. The principles and techniques involved in developing and creating enterprising longer-form journalistic work for a converged environment, principally television and the World Wide Web. Students research, write, and produce news and feature packages similar to those of network television news magazines for broadcast on the local cable-access channel. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 371 - Reporting on Business


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisite: At least junior standing. Reporting and writing techniques used by journalists who cover the world of business, focusing especially on companies and their employees and customers. Students develop competence in framing, researching, and writing articles in these areas. A part of the business journalism sequence; also appropriate as an elective for other journalism majors and for business majors. Luecke.



  
  • JOUR 372 - Reporting on the Economy


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisites: At least junior standing. Reporting and writing techniques used by journalists who cover the world of economics and business, focusing especially on the economy and financial markets. Students develop competence in framing, researching, and writing articles in these areas. A part of the business journalism sequence; also appropriate as an elective for other journalism majors and for business and economics majors. Luecke.



  
  • JOUR 377 - Media Management & Entrepreneurship


    Credits: 3-4
    Planned Offering: Fall, Spring

    Prerequisite: At least junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A seminar examining trends and challenges in media management, including a close examination of industry economics, changing reader and viewer habits, revenue and profit pressures, and labor and management issues unique to the news profession. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 399 - Contemporary Problems in Law and Journalism


    (LAW 242)
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisites: JOUR 301 and instructor consent. Enrollment limited. A seminar devoted to the study of issues on the frontier of developments in law and journalism. Issues to be addressed include limits on the dignitary torts of privacy and emotional distress; limitations on public availability of governmental information; the impact of new technology on communications law; proposals for reform of libel law; and the role of reporters, editors and legal counsel in the news process. Abah, Murchison.



  
  • JOUR 401 - Directed Individual Study


    Credits: 1
    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Directed study individually arranged and supervised in any area of the mass media. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 402 - Directed Individual Study


    Credits: 2
    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Directed study individually arranged and supervised in any area of the mass media. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 403 - Directed Individual Study


    Credits: 3
    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Directed study individually arranged and supervised in any area of the mass media. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 421 - Directed Individual Research


    Credits: 1
    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Research or creative projects, individually arranged and supervised, in any phase of mass media and related operations. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 422 - Directed Individual Research


    Credits: 2
    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Research or creative projects, individually arranged and supervised, in any phase of mass media and related operations. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 423 - Directed Individual Research


    Credits: 3
    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Research or creative projects, individually arranged and supervised, in any phase of mass media and related operations. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.



  
  • JOUR 451 - News Internship


    Credits: 1
    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the journalism or business journalism sequences. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, with newspapers, radio and television stations, Internet news sites, or other news media or business institutions, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by November 15 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship in the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.



  
  • JOUR 452 - News Internship


    Credits: 2
    Prerequisites: JOUR 202 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the journalism or business journalism sequences. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, with newspapers, radio and television stations, Internet news sites, or other news media or business institutions, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by November 15 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship in the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.



  
  • JOUR 453 - News Internship


    Credits: 3
    Prerequisites: JOUR 202 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the journalism or business journalism sequences. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, with newspapers, radio and television stations, Internet news sites, or other news media or business institutions, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by November 15 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship in the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.



  
  • JOUR 461 - Communications Internship


    Credits: 1
    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the mass communications sequence. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, in public relations, advertising, corporate communications, or other mass media-related businesses, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by March 1 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship during the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.



  
  • JOUR 462 - Communications Internship


    Credits: 2
    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the mass communications sequence. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, in public relations, advertising, corporate communications, or other mass media-related businesses, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by March 1 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship during the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.



  
  • JOUR 463 - Communications Internship


    Credits: 3
    Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the mass communications sequence. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, in public relations, advertising, corporate communications, or other mass media-related businesses, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by March 1 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship during the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . . Staff.



  
  • JOUR 493 - Honors Thesis


    Credits: 3-3
    Planned Offering: Fall-Winter

    Prerequisite: Senior standing, honors candidacy and consent of the department faculty. Students interested in honors work are expected to receive departmental approval no later than the middle of the spring term in the junior year. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54253.xml for details. Staff.




Latin

  
  • LATN 101 - Elementary Latin


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Study of Latin declensional patterns and sentence formation. Staff.



  
  • LATN 102 - Elementary Latin


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisite: LATN 101. A continuation of the materials and methods in LATN 101 with emphasis on syntax. Staff.



  
  • LATN 201 - Republican Prose


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisite: LATN 102 or equivalent. Reading selections from some or all of the following: Cato, Nepos, Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, and Varro. Emphasis on style and syntax, along with the political and social background of the later Republican period. Staff.



  
  • LATN 202 - Introduction to Verse


    FDR: FL
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter

    Prerequisite: LATN 201 or equivalent. Introduction to the language, meter, and style of Latin verse with readings from Horace, Ovid, Virgil, and Propertius. Benefiel.



  
  • LATN 301 - Advanced Prose


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or equivalent. Selections from among Cicero, Sallust, Livy, Seneca, and Quintilian. Crotty.



  
  • LATN 302 - Advanced Republican and Augustan Verse


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or equivalent. Selections from among Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. Staff.



  
  • LATN 310 - Letters of Cicero and Pliny


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014

    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. This course examines different styles and purposes of letter writing in the Roman world, focusing on the historically revealing letters of Cicero and Pliny, but also including samples from the Epistles of Horace and Seneca, as well as a few “fictional” letters by Ovid. Benefiel.



  
  • LATN 320 - Literature in the Age of Nero


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014

    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. This course provides an opportunity for advanced Latin students to understand a very complicated period by examining representative literature of the age. Readings include the Thyestes of Seneca, as well as selections from his Moral Epistles , selections from Lucan’s de Bello Civili , Petronius’ Satyricon , and Tacitus’ Histories . Images of art and architecture of the period are shown, and lectures cover such topics necessary for understanding the literature as slavery, public entertainment, and patronage. Carlisle.



  
  • LATN 321 - Lyric Poetry: Horace and Catullus


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014

    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Lyric Poetry: Horace and Catullus Carlisle.



  
  • LATN 323 - History: Tacitus


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall 2013

    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. History: Tacitus Benefiel.



  
  • LATN 324 - Roman Historiography: Livy


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014

    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Readings from the Augustan historian Livy’s History of Rome. Carlisle.



  
  • LATN 325 - Virgil’s Aeneid


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Winter 2014

    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Virgil’s Aeneid Carlisle.



  
  • LATN 326 - The Poetry of Ovid


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014

    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Readings from the masterpieces of Ovid’s poetry, including one or more of the following: The Metamorphoses (a grand mythological epic), The Fasti (festivals and the Roman calendar), The Heroides (fictional letters written by mythological heroines, Ars Amatoria and Amores (love poetry) and Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto (his poetry from exile). Topic varies by term but course may be taken only once. Benefiel or Carlisle.



  
  • LATN 327 - Medieval and Renaissance Writers


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Readings from Augustine, Bede, the Crusader historians, medieval hymns, the Carmina Burana , Petrarch, and texts proposed by students. Staff.



  
  • LATN 331 - Early Republican Literature


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall 2013

    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. This course explores the literature of early Rome, most importantly Roman comedy. Crotty.



  
  • LATN 332 - Latin Prose Composition


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Prerequisite: One 300-level LATN course or instructor consent. A consideration of several masters of prose style, including Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Tacitus and Pliny, as well as extensive exercises in Latin prose composition. Carlisle.



  
  • LATN 395 - Topics in Advanced Latin Literature


    FDR: HL
    Credits: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Selected subject areas in Latin literature. The topic selected varies from year to year. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

    Winter 2014 Topic:

    LATN 395: Roman Religion Through Poetic Texts (3). For the Romans, religion was everywhere. Grand temples lined the public spaces; houses had shrines to the household gods; politics and religion were closely linked, and literary texts have left us with some of the richest evidence for Roman religious practice. This course provides an introduction to the main features of traditional Roman religion through Latin poetry. We are going to examine Roman hymns and prayers, reflections on the relationships between gods and mortals, responses to magic and folk religion, and a poetic account of Roman religious festivals. Throughout we are going to ask ourselves how the texts portray the gods, how different genres create a space for religious material, and how these texts both shape and reflect the diversity of lived religious experiences in the Roman world. Readings will be primarily drawn from Catullus, Horace, and Ovid. (HL) Köster. Winter 2014



  
  • LATN 401 - Directed Individual Study


    Credits: 1
    Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

    May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.



  
  • LATN 402 - Directed Individual Study


    Credits: 2
    Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

    May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.



  
  • LATN 403 - Directed Individual Study


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

    May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.



  
  • LATN 421 - Directed Individual Research


    Credits: 1
    Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

    May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.



  
  • LATN 422 - Directed Individual Research


    Credits: 2
    Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

    May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.



  
  • LATN 423 - Directed Individual Research


    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

    May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.




Latin American and Caribbean Studies

  
  • LACS 101 - Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies


    FDR: HU
    Credits: 3
    Planned Offering: Fall

    A multidisciplinary, introductory course designed to familiarize students with the pertinent issues that determine or affect the concept of identity in Latin American and Caribbean societies through a study of their geography, history, politics, economics, literature, and culture. The purpose of the course is to provide a framework or overview to enhance understanding in the students’ future courses in particular disciplines and specific areas of Latin American and Caribbean study. Barnett.



  
  • LACS 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. .



 

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