INST 3900/JOUR 4950/MC 5870: International Media Seminar Spring 2013 Dr.

Catherine Cassara 317 West Hall 419- 372-2372 ccassar@bgnet.bgsu.edu Cassara office hours: Julie Hagenbuch 102 West Hall 419-372-0513 hagenjk@bgsu.edu

(there is a sign-up sheet on my door, but you can also just show up!)

Monday, 1:30 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, 9 to 11 a.m. And by appointment

Course goals The purpose of this course is to prepare you to travel to Paris and to make the most out of the International Media Seminar and the other opportunities offered to you by the trip. This course will dovetail with JOUR 4750: Perspectives on International Media, enriching your knowledge about international media and the people who cover the world for America. Required texts McCoy, Heather. 1001 Easy French Phrases. Dover Guides, 2010 ISBN. 0486476200. Streetwise Maps. Streetwise Paris Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Paris, France. March 2012, ISBN 0935039252 (or equivalent). Steves, Rick. Rick Steves Paris 2012. Avalon Travel. ISBN 1612380069. Hachten, William A. and James Scotton. The World News Prism: Challenges of Digital Communication. Sixth Edition. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 2002. Recommended texts Karnow, Stanley. Paris in the Fifties. Random House, ISBN 0812931378 Lennon, Peter. Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixties. MacMillan Publishing, ISBN 0330319124 Root, Waverly. The Paris Edition: The Autobiography of Waverly Root: 19271934. North Point Press, 1987. ASIN: 0865472769 Available in used paperback online. Schwartz, Vanessa R. Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-DeSicle Paris. Univ. of California Press, 1999. ISBN 050221680. Weber, Ronald. News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars. Ivan R. Dee, 2007. ISBN 1566637325.

Course grade Most of the credit you get for your country report, your book report and your research paper will come under JOUR 4750 and will be governed by the criteria and expectations laid out in that syllabus. For the one hour of credit you earn under the JOUR 4950/INST 3900 course your grade will be assessed as follows. Web research project 20 Attendance and participation/BGSU 30 Attendance, participation & comportment/Paris 50 Course structure We will meet every week before spring break. Those meetings will bring together both the undergraduate and graduate. We will talk about everything from how to ride the Metro to the structure of media in France. For the most part, those meetings should be viewed as preparation for the seminar in Paris. In Paris you will be expected to attend all of the seminar sessions at the American University. I expect you to go on the trips to the media operations in Paris, to the Embassy, etc. In addition, I expect you to come to the all sessions with the correspondents and other experts, as well as to the dinner at the Huebners apartment, etc. We will travel to all the events away from our home base in groups with a leader who knows the route. Be sure to stay with them. There will be time set aside during the week for you to see some of Paris and there will even be one or two options for tours. What you do during those times is up to you, but you should keep me apprised of your plans. If there is something special you want to do and you dont have someone to do it with tell me. I will be able to arrange to go with or to find someone else who wants to do the same thing. When we return, we have a debriefing meeting, which will bring the graduate and undergraduates students together one last time. After that you will only have to attend JOUR 4750, though you would certainly be welcome to continue to come to the meeting for the graduate students if you want to. Because they will not be attending 4750, I will continue to meet with every week we get back and they, too, will be working on research projects. Academic Honesty All of the standard university policies with regard to ethical behavior and academic honesty will be in force both at home and abroad. Class topics and reading assignments: We will have multiple tasks at each class. I will try to chart them here, but dont be surprised if something comes up all of a sudden.

Jan 7 Introduction . To the International Media SeminarWhere will we be in Paris you might want to see? Introduction to assignments, etc. Jan 14 Whos my roommate? We will have a visitor from the Center for International Programs Steves, 1- 68, 87-93; Photocopied reading -- on canvas Jan. 21 Martin Luther King Holiday --- but email me your

professors names & departments

Jan. 28 Whats international public relations about? How do they connect to the Seminar? Photocopied reading -- on canvas World Wide Web assignment Feb. 4 Important Paris life issues Money, Metro, Manners, etc Steves 324-336 Photocopied reading -- on canvas World Wide Web assignment Feb. 11 More Important life issues Food, Hotel, Shopping! Steves, 258-305, 290-335, 340-349 Photocopied reading on canvas Feb. 18 Parisian culture Steves, 350-354, 216-232 Reading photocopy on canvas Undergrads contribute their knowledge Feb. 225 Last minute discussions: Must see sites (sights), packing, etc. March 4 We will be in Paris March 11 Jet lagged, we will be settling back into life in BG no class March 18 Debriefing, evaluations, class wrap-up