News Literacy - Professor Jim Kurfield 

     This course is designed to teach students how to take skillful possession of their

power as citizens by becoming perceptive news consumers. Armed with critical-
thinking skills, a firm grasp of relevant history and practical knowledge about news

media, News Literacy students learn how to find the reliable information they need

to make decisions, take action, make judgments and responsibly create material for

social media. At a time when the digital revolution is spawning an unprecedented

flood of information and disinformation each day, the course seeks to help students

recognize the differences between news and propaganda, news and opinion, bias

and fairness, assertion and verification, and evidence and inference.