Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
Course Master
FIRSTBRIDGE IN GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS (CM1099)
Credits
4 credits
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Life online increasingly effects our political world: bots are “stealing” elections, hackers who leak government secrets are alternately hailed as heroes or traitors, protests are organized as facebook events and twitter threads turn into impassioned debates that span remote locations. How has the growth of networked communication changed politics? What are the perils and promises of online participation for democracy? This course studies emerging technology and current events, but asks old questions about what it means to participate in a public. It addresses problems of access, safety, literacy, and inequality that reemerge in new forms. This course brings together key concepts in media studies and democracy theory to think about our roles as citizens in the digital age: as we come of age in a networked society, what new opportunities and responsibilities do we have as globally connected citizens and political actors?
Term
Fall 2020
Discipline
CM (Communications)
Type
CCI
Can be taken twice for credit?
Off
Level
Undergraduate
CAMS ID
41432
Code
CM1099FB5
Learning Outcomes
To grasp and express key core concepts in democratic theory and media/communication studies.
To understand and reconstruct scholarly texts in political theory and media/communication studies.
To analyze and evaluate conceptual and normative political arguments.
To develop and convincingly argue for one’s own position on democratic participation in a digitalized world.
To develop a politically-informed digital literacy that allows students to analyze, critique, and practice this position, both on- and off-line.
Local and Global Perspectives: Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures, and histories of local societies and the global issues to which these relate (CCI 1).
Exploring and Engaging Difference: Students will think critically about cultural and social difference; they will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities that can relate to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion, or class (CCI 3).
Civic and Ethical Engagement: Students will demonstrate awareness of ethical considerations relating to specific societal problems, values, or practices (historical or contemporary; global or local) and learn to articulate possible solutions to prominent challenges facing societies and institutions today so as to become engaged actors at various levels in our interconnected world (CCI 4).
Information Literacy: Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field. 
Life at University: Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context. 
Name
SPEAKING OUT & LOGGING IN: DIGITAL PARTICIPATION AND PUBLIC
Section
FB5
Start Date
Tuesday, September 22 2020
End Date
Monday, December 21 2020
Start Month
September
Exam Date
Wednesday, December 16 2020 - 15:00
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