Course Description
First Amendment principles and communication law affecting print, telecommunications, advertising, and public relations.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Term paper at option of professor
Athena Title
Law of Mass Communication
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in JRLC 5040H, JRLC 5040E or JRLC 7040E
Prerequisite
(ADPR 3100 or ADPR 3100H or ADPR 3850 or ADPR 3850H or JOUR 3310 or JOUR 3310H or JOUR 3030 or JOUR 3030H or EMST 3010 or EMST 3010H) and permission of school
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
To acquire practical legal knowledge to help practitioners protect themselves and to use the law to serve their professional goals; To understand judicial reasoning and constitutional tools; To apply legal principles, law and reasoning to real and hypothetical cases involving the media and media professions.
Topical Outline
First Amendment purposes Prior restraints Libel Obscenity Privacy Copyright Commercial speech Access to information Telecommunications regulations
Syllabus