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2025 Spring

TOPICS IN MEDIA STUDIES II - JRN233 Spring 2025


Course
Robert Warren
For information about registration please contact our admissions.

Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. The State of Play: Framing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2024

Feb 3

2. A Story for the Ages: Where Zionism Meets Jewish Nationalism

Feb 10

3. A Mixed Blessing: The Creation of the State of Israel / Al Nakba (1948)

Feb 17

4. Power & Prose: Understanding Western Media Narratives

Feb 24

5. Born to Serve: Analyzing the Influence of Combat on Content

Mar 3

6. MIDTERM EXAM

Mar 10

7. Can the Subaltern Speak? Global Media and the Al Jazeera Effect

Mar 31

8. Writing the Other: An Introduction to Edward Said and Orientalism (Friday make-up class)

Apr 4

9. Look Who’s Talking: An Introduction to Michel Foucault and Discourse Analysis

Apr 7

10. GUEST LECTURE: Czech Media Reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Dr. Andrea Průchová Hrů...

Apr 14

11. GUEST LECTURE: The Role of Social Media in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Prof. G. Medeiros & ...

Apr 28

12. Rewriting the Script: Citizen Journalism and the Prospects for Peace

May 5

13. FILM SCREENING: From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza (R. Masharawi, 2024)

May 12

From Ground Zero is a collection of 22 short films made in Gaza. Initiated by Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi, the project was born to give a voice to 22 Gazan filmmakers to tell the untold stories of the current war on film.

14. FINAL EXAM

May 19
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