Ethics and Legal Issues

Catalog description

This course requires students to recognize and practice legal reasoning in relation to issues of relevance to communication professionals. Students will learn to identify elements present in cases concerning libel, privacy, and intellectual property. Additionally, students will consider the legal constraints associated with commercial expression. Finally, students will explore ethical questions likely to arise within the field of professional communication, which cannot be adequately answered by legal means. Students will develop strategies for answering those questions and learn to apply relevant ethical principles as they do so.