CP = Course packet

Week 1

• Mesopotamia, Egypt and early communication
• Readings: CP, pages 2-11
• Groups assigned
  

Week 2

• Greece to the printing press, broadsides activity
• Readings: CP, 13-23
• Brief presentations:
  • Ashley A. (Early Chinese writing and printing)
  • Katelin (God's word for Indians and the Indian Bible)
  • Vanessa (Increase and Cotton Mather)
    

Week 3

• Colonial and revolutionary presses
• Readings: CP, 25-36
• Brief presentations:
  • Nicholas (Thomas Paine)
  • Ana (George Whitefield)
  • Shianne (Press as a blessing to religion)

Week 4

• The party press
• Exam one preview
• Readings: CP, 38-47
• Brief presentations:
  • Tony (Federalists & Republicans)
  • Aramenta (Whigs & Jacksonian Democrats)
  • Kristen (Orson Welles)

Week 5

• EXAM ONE
• Readings: CP 49-64

Week 6

• The antebellum press
• Readings: CP, 66-77
• Brief presentations:
• Alisse (Walter Cronkite)
• Joel (David Halberstam)
• Travis (Ernie Pyle)
• Brian (Mike Royko)

Week 7

• The penny press
• Readings: CP, 78-91
• Brief presentations:
  • Daniel (Horace Greeley)
  • Alex (Joseph Medill)
  • Samantha (Artemus Ward)

Week 8

• The telegraph and the frontier press
• Readings: CP, 92-107
• Small presentations:
  • Julia (E.W. Scripps)
  • Amanda (Adolph Ochs)
  • Charlenne (William Rockhill Nelson)

Week 9

• Independent library activity
  • Subject: Northern California frontier press
  • Material: Microfilm
  • Activity: Paper composed for part one of exam two and subsequent discussion.
• Readings: CP, 108-112

Week 10

• Yellow journalism
• Exam preview
• Readings: CP, 107-110
• Small presentations:
  • Earl (Mike Drudge)
  • Phil (Tim Berners-Lee)
  • Eric (Andrew Sullivan)

Week 11

• EXAM TWO
• Readings: CP, 113-120
• Editors of the late 19th century

Week 12

• No class -- Veteran's Day
• Readings: CP, 122-129
  

Week 13

• Muckraking
• Presentations: Hemingway group
• Readings: CP, 131-136

Week 14

• THANKSGIVING BREAK
  

Week 15

• Origins of PR; propaganda, war during early 20th century
• Presentations: Vonnegut, Woodward & Bernstein, Malcolm, Capote groups
• Readings: CP, 137-147
  

Week 16

• Review for exam three
• Underground press
• Presentations: Thompson, Wolfe, Douglass groups
• Readings: CP, 149-150
  

Finals week

• EXAM 3
• Tuesday, 8-9:50 in THMA 130

Critical dates

Sept 23: Exam one

Oct 28: Exam two

Dec 16: Exam three