Teaches students how to take skillful possession of their power as citizens by participating in community focused news literacy service learning projects. Recently, debates about fake news in entertainment, politics, and news media have centered on the threat American citizens' waning news literacy skills pose to the democratic process. Course develops those skills, focusing on critical thinking, the history of fake news and journalism, differences between journalism and fake news, news and propaganda, news and opinion, bias and fairness, assertion and verification, and evidence and inference. Integrates coursework into collaborative community engagement projects that seek to advance the community's news literacy skills.
10 terms
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University of California, Santa Cruz
MERR 60 at UCSC: average GPA 3.72 across 681 students. Grade distribution by term. Teaches students how to take skillful possession of their power as citizens…
Average GPA: 3.72
Grade distribution records: 681 students across 10 terms.
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 400 | 58.7% |
| A | 56 | 8.2% |
| A- | 32 | 4.7% |
| B+ | 15 | 2.2% |
| B | 11 | 1.6% |
| B- | 12 | 1.8% |
| C+ | 10 | 1.5% |
| C | 4 | 0.6% |
| C- | 7 | 1.0% |
| F | 18 | 2.6% |
| P | 69 | 10.1% |
| NP | 16 | 2.3% |
| W | 31 | 4.6% |
Based on 681 student grade records across 10 terms and 1 professor.
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