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Older classes
PEAC 200 Peace studies
Reporting (404-481)
Assignments (404-481)
COMS 404 calendar
COMS 404 Student sites Spring 2013
Reporting guidelines
Environmental journalism
COMS 104 assignments fall 2012
COMS 104 student sites fall 2012
COMS 226 student links Spring 2013
Free Speech (460)
Calendar (460)
Free speech class Spring 2013
RU Policies & Memos
Deans Council 2012
Deans memo 2011
Origins of the course
Public Service Projects
Working groups COMS 460
Writing (104)
COMS 104 Calendar
COMS 204-404 Reporting tools
Grading reported news
Covering biofuels
Imaging (226)
Digital imaging notes
Ditigal imaging quiz review
Stock image sources
Assignments 226
Context, photographer questions
Media History (300)
COMS 300 history calendar
COMS 300 history project
COMS 300 history quizzes
Q01.Introductory Chapter Quiz
Media law (400)
Current events
1. Introduction to media law
2. Free speech in history
2.2 Reformation
2.3 Enlightenment
2.4 Censorship
2.5 Constitution
2.6 Revolutions in conflict
3. Prior Restraint
3.1 20th century censorship cases
4. Media Ethics
Ethics & images
Pre-trial reporting ethics
5. Libel
4a. Libel cases
4b. Libel history
4c. Libel hypothetical
6. Privacy
7. Obscenity and indecency
8. Copyright and IP
8.1 Recent copyright controversy
8.2 University IP
RU IP Policies
RU IP shop “right”
9. Newsgathering & Privilege
9a. Privilege
9b. Points of view – FOIA and sources
10. Free Press – Fair Trial
11. Broadcasting law
12. Advertising
Moot Court
Final exam review
Prof K research
Henry Ford, Charles Kettering and the Fuel of the Future
Environmental history / biofuels
Charles F. Kettering and the 1921 discovery of tetraethyl lead
Special motives
Ethanol’s First Century
The Ethyl conflict & the media
Ethanol in Brazil
The editor who tried to stop the Civil War
Niles Register
News & the Environment
E.W. Scripps and science
Greenpeace history
Before Silent Spring
Central American media technology 1990 survey
Older classes
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