Students will improve their metacognition and critical thinking skills.
Students will learn about potential forms and sources of bias.
Students will learn how to select news articles carefully and how to read them.

I am a licensed social studies teacher and former debate coach. In college as an undergraduate research fellow and an honors student, I was forced to research constantly and was presented with multiple methods and frameworks for doing research which I have drawn upon in teaching this class.

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Students will be asked to practice what they're learning in class by studying out a topic in the news. They will fill out guided worksheets asking questions about the author, sources, currency, and objectivity of their sources.

Students will be asked to find, read, and reflect upon multiple sources.
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"Four Theories of the Press: The Authoritarian, Libertarian, Social Responsibility, and Soviet Communist Concepts of What the Press Should Be and Do" by Fred S. Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm.
AllSides Media Bias Chart
Modified versions of questions and handouts from Dr. Julia Gossard's HIST 3000 class: Historical Research Methods taught Spring of 2021 at USU.