MSMC 5014 Communications Ethics & Law
This course explores professional ethics for communicators in the corporate and public sectors, and also focuses on laws relating to mass communication, including the First Amendment, defamation, privacy, and the regulation of commercial speech. Actual case problems are highlighted. This course is designed to enable students to understand the rules and principles that ought to guide their professional conduct as communicators and as managers, and how the values of individuals and organizations relate to organizational effectiveness and to the larger communities around them.