Syllabus
https://cetacademicprograms.com/college-study-abroad/programs/czech-republic/cet-prague/
Required reading materials (the Reader) will be sent to the enrolled students via e-mail as a pdf file.
One copy of the reader will also be available in the CET Library.
Annotation
This course is organized by the partner institution CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); comprehensive information is available at http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.
What is news? What is fake news? And what can these concepts tell us about the societies that employ them? In this course, students will explore the varied social actors and media forms that have historically been linked with the dissemination of “the truth.” The class will consider when, and to what ends, different media have been utilized to confer a veneer of truth upon information its authors knew to be false.