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JOUR 101 Media and Society

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Strong Hall
1450 Jayhawk Blvd.
Room 36
Lawrence, KS 66045-7535
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Chancellor's class Tackles Issue of Global Poverty

(3). Introductory course open to all KU students. The course emphasizes the use of critcal and creative thinking as tools to better consider the reliability of information recieved through newspapers, magazines, radio and television, online media, trade publications, advertising, and business communications. The class also surveys media ethics, economics, technology, and the function and impact of media on a free society. The course is designed for pre-journalism students, students considering journalism as a major, and students from other disciplines who take it as an elective. For students who enter college in Fall 2000 and thereafter, this is a prerequisite for all other journalism cources except for JOUR 600. Not open to seniors. Must be completed with a grade of 2.0 or better. May be retaken once.