Journalism 662 - Mass Media and Minorites, Grading Books, etc...

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Grading, Books, etc...

Final grades will be calculated in the following way:

Short papers	-	40%
Final exam	-	30%
Group project	-	15%
Class participation	-	15% (5% attendance, 10% in-class discussion)

Grading Scale for Exams and Assignments

A:	`	93 - 100
AB:	`	88 - 92
B:	`	82 - 87
BC:	`	78 - 81
C:	`	70 - 77
D:	`	60 - 69
F:	`	0-59

Books: The first two books are required, the other two recommended, for this course:

Clint C. Wilson II, Felix Gutierrez and Lena M. Chao (2003)
Race Multiculturalism and the Media (3^rd Edition).
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Lehrman, Sally. News in a New America.
Full-text version. (2.1 MB)
How Race is Lived in America : Pulling Together, Pulling Apart. Correspondents of the New York Times; introduction by Joseph Lelyveld. New York : Times Books/Henry Holt, 2001.
Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki (2001)
The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

These books are available at Rainbow Books, 426 W. Gilman, 257-6050, rbc@supranet.com

Additional required readings are available through the reserve readings for Journalism 662 (a part of College Library’s electronic reserves).

Plagiarism and cheating: Please do not use information prepared by another writer or scholar and present it as your own work and please do not manufacture information to enhance your work. To do so is academic dishonesty and can result in an "F" on the assignment and, possibly, other penalties.

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