13 Mar
Courses Tied to UM’s 60th Anniversary of Integration
Topics include minorities in health professions, politics of inequality
Program Detail
Media Technology Ethics:
From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley
Dates: January 4-8 and 11-15, 2021
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor: Cynthia Joyce, Associate Professor of Journalism
Cost: This is a virtual course with no travel planned at this time. Tuition rates are the traditional costs for UM 3-hour undergraduate course. Non-resident fees will be charged if applicable.*
Application Deadline: December 11, 2020
* Students will be attending the virtual Consumer Electronics Show; if there is a cost associated with registration, students will be billed to fully participate in the course.
- Attend sessions during the virtual Consumer Electronics Show 2021, one of the world’s largest tech conferences.
- Meet with current employees at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Medium.
- Hear from top tech reporters who cover Silicon Valley.
- Study the integration of technology into our everyday lives, and the unintended impacts of that integration.
- Look critically at the social media tool they use.
Itinerary subject to change.
Dates:
Students will attend class virtually from January 4-8 and 11-15, 2021
Location:
Virtual
This course is open to all majors. Students who might be interested include Journalism and IMC majors, Liberal Arts students, and Computer Science students.
Prerequisites: None
TBD + Tuition. Students will be attending the virtual Consumer Electronics Show, if there is a cost associated with registration, students will be billed to fully participate in the course.
This is a virtual course; no travel is planned at this time. Students will need a reliable internet connection, access to a laptop, web camera, and microphone to participate in the course.
