WEEK-BY-WEEK SKED

 

Assignments   

Quizzes = Approximately every two weeks. Based on class lectures. On Blackboard. On your schedule. One attempt. Due seven days from posting.

Reflection  = Based on a movie. 500 words. 12 pts. Times New Roman. Double-spaced. To be posted on Blackboard. Due Feb. 13, end of day.

Research Paper = 8 pages, double-spaced, one-sided, 12 pt. type, Times New Roman, APA Style. First-half class due March 7. Second-half class due April 29. 

 

Week 1, Tuesday

    Welcome!

    First Amendment Fundamentals

    Syllabus Review & Overview

Week 1, Thursday

    Review: Progressive Era + Terms/Concepts
 
    Prior Restraints: Near v. Minn. + Pentagon Papers

    Quiz 1 posted, due one week.

Week 2, Tuesday

    Levels of Protection — Type of Speech + Type of Forum

Week 2, Thursday

    Levels of Protection — Type of Medium + Type of Speaker 

   Quiz 2 posted, due one week. 

Week 3, Tuesday   

    Commercial & Corporate Speech.

    Resource: Commercial Speech

Week 3, Thursday

    Commercial & Corporate Speech.

    Resource: Corporate Speech 

    Quiz 3 posted, due one week.

Week 4, Tuesday

    "Thank You For Smoking"  

     Ethics Reflection, due end of term. 

Week 5, Tuesday    

      Copyright Law.

    Resource: Copyright

Week 5, Thursday 

    Trademark Law.

    Resource: Trademark

   Quizzes 4 & 5, due one week.   

 

Week 6, Tuesday

    MLK, Civil Rights & Birth of the Modern First Amendment.

    Resource: NYT v. Sullivan

Week 6, Thursday

    Libel Law.

    Resource: Defamation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 7, Tuesday

    Libel & Privacy Torts.

    Resource: Privacy

    Quiz 6 & 7 posted, due one week.

Week 7, Thursday

   Paper Coaching

Week 8, Tuesday

     TBA

 

    FINAL EXAM PERIOD

    8 a.m. April 29

    Research Presentations (graded)

    PAPER DUE = HARD COPY

 

                                 Congratulations!