Brief 8

This course has been helpful in learning about law and ethics in the context of the media. However, if I could re-design something about this course it would be to separate the media law aspect from the media ethics aspect. To me it seems as if there is enough content for this to become two separate courses. I like what the book does to try and combine the two ideas but there is a distinguishable difference and shift in tone when the author is writing a media law book and a media ethics book. It is almost as if the first half of the book is primarily about media ethics and the second half is about media law. Also, I think that it would be more practical for this course which is in a program for communication major undergraduates to focus on being more of a media ethics class. The reason that I feel this way is because it is more applicable to the practices of what we will be doing after college. The media law class could be a graduate level class that is not a requirement. This proposition makes sense in my opinion because we are not in a law school and while it is beneficial to learn law, I think this separation is also beneficial. This could allow for one or both of these classes to count towards a general education requirement. An example of this is how a media ethics class could count toward the ethics requirement set up by the university. I think that a more diverse class selection for all of the general education requirements would benefit the university because there are not too many classes that actually count for each of these requirements.