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MERR 60 - 01 Fake News: Its History and Why We Need Critical Media Literacy

2024 Summer Quarter

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Career: Undergraduate
Grading: Student Option
Class Number: 70497
Type: Seminar
Instruction Mode: Asynchronous Online
Credits: 5 units
General Education: TA

Status: Open
Available Seats: 16
Enrollment Capacity: 90
Enrolled: 74
Wait List Capacity: 0
Wait List Total: 0

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Teaches students how to take skillful possession of their power as citizens by participating in community focused news literacy service learning projects. Recently, debates about fake news in entertainment, politics, and news media have centered on the threat American citizens' waning news literacy skills pose to the democratic process. Course develops those skills, focusing on critical thinking, the history of fake news and journalism, differences between journalism and fake news, news and propaganda, news and opinion, bias and fairness, assertion and verification, and evidence and inference. Integrates coursework into collaborative community engagement projects that seek to advance the community's news literacy skills.

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Days & Times	Room	Instructor	Meeting Dates
	Online	Higdon,N.	06/24/24 - 07/26/24