Senior Seminar in Digital Media

COMM DM 4632  / MWF 11-11:50 a.m. / FALL 2021
Lang Hall 223

UNI Catalog Description

Preparation for a professional career in digital media, including development of interview skills, resumes, portfolios, and cover letters. Exploration of ethical foundations for production, distribution, and consumption of digital media. Prerequisite(s): COMM DM 1650; senior standing. (Fall and Spring)

Course Objectives: This course is required for Digital Media majors. Course objectives are:

1. To develop a professional portfolio and professional communication strategies for media jobs and/or graduate school.
2. To examine and discuss ethical and philosophical concepts that can be applied in personal and professional ethical dilemmas, especially in various digital media activities.

Readings and Course Materials:

• Reading links available at https://sites.uni.edu/martinc/senior-seminar-in-digital-media/
• Other readings included on the course eLearning site.
• I’ll post any Powerpoint slides from the course on the course eLearning site

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Philosophers

The Greek View

• Plato
• Aristotle

Transition Figures

• Abelard — Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)
  
• St. Thomas Aquinas
  
• Francis Bacon
  

Rebels

• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Thomas Hobbes
  
• Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire –– Candide (1759)

Traditionalists

• Benedict Spinoza
  
• Immanuel Kant
• John Stuart Mill
  

Continental Connection

• Arthur Schopenhauer
  
• Emile Durkheim 

Modern Influences

• Jean-Paul Sartre
  
• Ayn Rand
  
• Lawrence Kohlberg / Stages of Moral Development
  
• Carol Gilligan

Religious Traditions

• Islam
• Buddhism
• Judeo-Christian Tradition

Postmodern Approaches

• Michel Foucault
  
• Jean Baudrillard/short piece on Baudrillard in The New Yorker
  
  

More on Philosophers:

See Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy