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.