S2611 News, Views, and Attitudes: A Media Literacy Class to Enhance Critical Thinking About Media Messages

S2611 News, Views, and Attitudes: A Media Literacy Class to Enhance Critical Thinking About Media Messages

Wednesdays, April 8 (Part 1), April 15 (Part 2), and April 22 (Part 3)
10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Fisher Auditorium at Dock Woods

 

100 in stock

Description

Class Summary

This three-part series will help students improve critical thinking skills for coping with the tsunami of media content washing over us every hour of the day.

About the Instructor

Mark Kelley, Ph.D., taught journalism/mass communications at Syracuse University, the University of Maine (Orono), and the New England School of Communications (Bangor), after 25 years as a professional broadcast journalist. His broadcast career included reporting and producing weekend news at WSTM- TV (Syracuse, NY), and investigative reporting at WSJV-TV and WNDU-TV (Elkhart/South Bend, IN). He is the author of six books, including Engaging News Media: A Practical Guide for People of Faith; This Mere Existence: Motivation and Strategies for Restoring Human Rights; and An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith. Mark lives in Lancaster with his wife, Marty.