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COMM 590
Special Topics
Credit: 2 to 8 hours.
(COMM 490) May be repeated.
Section Information
| CRN | Type | Section | Time | Days | Location | Instructor |
| 10550 | independent study | | ARRANGED | | | |
Instructor Approval Required
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| 41214 | conference | CLC | 03:00 PM - 04:50 PM | M | room 231
Gregory Hall | Christians, C |
COMM 590 CLC Communication and Information Ethics Credit: 4 hours Comm 590 introduces students to the latest literature in communication and information ethics. Efforts are currently underway in applied and professional ethics, feminist ethics, and social ethics to develop ethical models that are cross-cultural, gender inclusive and international. New media technologies, information systems and global communications are an important window for understanding the major ethical issues today. The readings include Cees Hamelink The Ethics of Cyberspace, Kwasi Wiredu Cultural Universals and Particulars, Martha Nussbaum Women and Human Development, Seyla Benhabib Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics, bell hooks Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Cornel West The Ethics of Marxism, Confucius The Analectst and Doctrine of the Mean, Carol Gillligan In a Different Voice, and Chase Alston, A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Origins of Modern Terrorism. In addition to reading and discussing the texts, one research paper is required. This is an opportunity to concentrate on a topic of specific interest to the variety of students in the seminar.
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| 41215 | conference | JCN | 03:00 PM - 04:50 PM | T | room 123
Gregory Hall | Nerone, J |
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