Ethical Issues in Communication:
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COMM 5350/6350, Spring 2005: ETHICAL ISSUES IN COMMUNICATION:
FOCUS ON DIMENSIONS OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Meets T & Th, 9:10-10:30 a.m., in MLi 1715
Professor George Cheney tel.: 801-585-5918; main office: 581-6888; fax: 585-6255; george.cheney@utah.edu Office Hours: W, 1:00-4:00 p.m.; also by appointment
Rationale and Objectives for the Course:
• The course will treat the intersection of communication and ethics within the contexts of the professions. We will emphasize professions which are most obviously engaged in the production of messages—e.g., public relations, advertising, marketing, journalism, politics, law, education, and management—but we will also examine codes and practices in arenas such as health care, psychology/psychiatry, and technology. The course is especially timely given corporate and governmental scandals, forms of personal alienation, and persistent questions about the roles of ethics in the global market.
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The course will assist students in analyzing how ethical issues are “framed” or discussed (e.g., the aphorisms “It’s just business,” “Act like a professional,” and “The market demands that we do this”) as well as consideration of particular ethical issues and cases (e.g., responsibility, privacy, informed consent, etc.). We will discuss in depth the interrelations of persuasion, manipulation, propaganda, etc.
Scope of Course:
• The course will be multi-disciplinary, yet it will emphasize the analysis of the production and consumption of messages. (Our examinations of symbols, relationships, and persuasive campaigns will be conducted from multiple standpoints: considering the “sources,” the messages themselves, and multiple audiences.) The course will treat historical as well as contemporary cases, but it will stress the latter. The course will apply and reexamine a variety of ethical perspectives on professional cultures, networks, market pressures, roles, activities, and judgments. At the broadest level, we will...
FOCUS ON DIMENSIONS OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Meets T & Th, 9:10-10:30 a.m., in MLi 1715
Professor George Cheney tel.: 801-585-5918; main office: 581-6888; fax: 585-6255; george.cheney@utah.edu Office Hours: W, 1:00-4:00 p.m.; also by appointment
Rationale and Objectives for the Course:
• The course will treat the intersection of communication and ethics within the contexts of the professions. We will emphasize professions which are most obviously engaged in the production of messages—e.g., public relations, advertising, marketing, journalism, politics, law, education, and management—but we will also examine codes and practices in arenas such as health care, psychology/psychiatry, and technology. The course is especially timely given corporate and governmental scandals, forms of personal alienation, and persistent questions about the roles of ethics in the global market.
• •
The course will assist students in analyzing how ethical issues are “framed” or discussed (e.g., the aphorisms “It’s just business,” “Act like a professional,” and “The market demands that we do this”) as well as consideration of particular ethical issues and cases (e.g., responsibility, privacy, informed consent, etc.). We will discuss in depth the interrelations of persuasion, manipulation, propaganda, etc.
Scope of Course:
• The course will be multi-disciplinary, yet it will emphasize the analysis of the production and consumption of messages. (Our examinations of symbols, relationships, and persuasive campaigns will be conducted from multiple standpoints: considering the “sources,” the messages themselves, and multiple audiences.) The course will treat historical as well as contemporary cases, but it will stress the latter. The course will apply and reexamine a variety of ethical perspectives on professional cultures, networks, market pressures, roles, activities, and judgments. At the broadest level, we will...