Judging the News

Catalog description

This course is designed to teach students to exercise their power as citizens bybecoming perceptive news consumers. Armed with critical-thinking skills, a firmgrasp of relevant history and practical knowledge about the news media,students learn how to find the reliable information they need to make decisions,take action, make judgments and responsibly share information through socialmedia. At a time when the digital revolution is spawning a flood of informationand disinformation each day, the course seeks to help students recognize thedifferences between facts and rumor, news and promotion, news and opinion,bias and fairness, assertion and verification, and evidence and inference. Note:Fulfills SUNY-GE Social Sciences and SUNY-GE Humanities. Prerequisite orcorequisite: ENG100 or ENG101.