COURSE CALENDAR

Under Development: Last updated 2-3-08

(Subject to change by in-class announcement)

1. Wartime communication and the marketplace of ideas (January 7, 9)

Topics: Democracy, communication and management of public opinion in wartime. World War I: First ‘modern’ propaganda war.

Read: Bennett, 1-12. Knightley, xi-xiii, 83-145.

Video: “The Image Makers,” VT 02427, Knight Library.

2-4. World Wars I and II: Propaganda and the ‘good’ wars (January 14- 16, 21-23, 28-30)

Read: Knightley, 293-390.

Videos: “The Propaganda Wars,” VT 5605, Knight Library

War of the Worlds, 1939 (personal collection)

Soldiers Without Swords: The Black Press, Video 4898

No class January 21.

Read: Knightley, 365-390.

First war communications comparison paper due Wednesday, January 23.

5. Media myths about Vietnam: betrayal by television or heroic journalism? (February 4, 6)

Read: Knightley, 409-468.

Video: DVD 0085: "Reporting America at War" (PBS, 2003)

(Completed midterm examinations due at the beginning of class on Monday, February 4.)

6. Live in the living room: CNN’s War in the Persian Gulf (February 11, 13)

Read: Knightley, 483-500

Video: Library VT 3777: "Uneasy Partners, the Press and the Military." (History Channel, 1996.)

7. Selling intervention: Panama, Kosovo, Somalia (February 18, 20)

Read: Knightley, 501-525

Videos: "The Whole World is Watching," from Investigative Productions, Inc., Toronto, 1987. Not in Knight Library, but interlibrary loan available through Summit.

Library VT 3210: "No Man's Land: Women Frontline Journalists," (Canadian Broadcasting Company, 1994).

Library VT 06290: "War Photographer." (2001)

8. Prelude to Iraq: Was truth the first casualty? (February 25, 27)

Read: Bennett, 13-72. Knightley, 527-547. Rushing, 1-88.

Second war communications comparison paper due at the start of class on Wednesday, February 27.

Project for Excellence in Journalism Report on War Coverage: http://journalism.org/node/8996

9. Irag war coverage in the U.S.: How many viewpoints are available? (March 3, 5)

Read: Bennett, 72-130, Appendix A. Rushing, 91-190.

DVD: "Control Room," interlibrary loan through Summit.

10. War in the digital age: The challenges of new communication technologies (March 10, 12)

Blogging as journalism

Read: Rushing, 193-228, Bennett, 165-198.

Final examination questions available on Wednesday, March 12 (Due by 5 p.m. Monday, March 17).