VM 307 - Communication Ethics and Cultural Diversity

Credits: 4
Inspects ethical issues, including racial and ethnic prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping, from a philosophical and case study approach. Topics such as privacy, piracy, censorship, offensiveness, deception, ethnocentricity, pornography, racism, confidentiality, fairness, and hate speech are investigated in a variety of communication media-computer technology, photography, video, speech, audio, film, and print-both in international and US domains.

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): VM 200 or VM 201
Course Restrictions: Junior standing.
Liberal Arts Perspective(s): US Diversity
Foundations Requirement(s):