[squarebarb]

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[MindBender26]

This is what taxpayers are paying for:

Media Violence; 4 credits CR 410/CRN44939 CR 510/44940 Tues/Thurs 10:00-11:50am

This course will explore the impact and influence that media has on cultural norms and ideals, with particular attention to the many ways that media promotes and reinforces patterns of violence and oppression. This course will introduce the concept of media literacy, inviting participants to discuss and deconstruct popular media message in film, video, television, radio, music, print and on the Internet.

Course content will also present research on the correlation between media consumption and early brain development, and the connection to changes in expected and accepted social norms.

Students will have the opportunity to creatively conceptualized non-oppressive media, and the class will explore means to advocate for social responsibility within the media industry.

In taking this course, students will become more educated consumers of their media diet, and more powerful activists for appropriate media education and direction.

Instructor:

Amanda Byron has a Masters Degree in Intercultural Communication and Program Administration and is currently on a leave of absence from the PhD program in Urban Studies.

Ms. Byron has over ten years of experience working with survivors of torture, and has been an active community organizer in the fields of violence prevention, and community development.

She is a trained mediator, specializing in Victim/Offender mediation, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Oregon Peace Institute.

WHAT A LOAD OF PSYCHO-BABBLE

[Chappaquiddick Crawdad]

"My grandmother, who was 5 feet tall, told stories of getting into fist fights with SS Soldiers, proving herself to be the victor time and time again."

And she still believes her mother, after all these years of "growing up"? SS guards were brutal; this is surely a tall tale.

[saquin]

My step-father is a practicing Buddhist, with Taoist leanings. I have chosen the Sufi path, on which I have been walking for over a dozen years. The initial lure of this path was the ecumenical nature of it, including practices from all of the world's traditions as an acknowledgement of the unity of all religious and spiritual ideals. I married a fellow Sufi, who grew up in the Unitarian Universalist Church studying Norse Mythology, and who has subsequently become a Muslim. When our son was born a year ago I discovered some of the inescapable bonds to my Judaism, which I am currently exploring.

A little confused, aren't we, dear?

[P-Marlowe]

Dictionary.com

No entry found for Enmification.

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, no better than this person stuck to the story of her life in her autobiography, (one paragraph in three--sorta related), no wonder it takes a graduate level course to teach something (conflict resolution) we learned by the third grade on the playground.

I really doubt I would survive long on the college campus of today (as opposed to 30 years ago) if this is any example of what passes for 'education'.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More from Portland.

[McGavin999]

Has anyone noticed that all these people are whiners? The only success they have is from crying about their failures as human beings.

[Eaker]

My grandmother, who was 5 feet tall, told stories of getting into fist fights with SS Soldiers, proving herself to be the victor time and time again.

LIAR!!

This NEVER happened.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What an upbringing....but she needs to add this to her curriculum for an opposing view.....and a good course should consider all views:

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Unholy Alliance
by David Horowitz
Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 089526076X
Hardcover - 256 pages (September 2004)

In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz, confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the “Great Satan” with America’s radical Islamic enemies. This Left, which once made common cause with Communists, has now joined forces with radical Islam in attacking America’s defenses at home and its policies abroad. From their positions of influence in the university and media culture, leftists have defined America as the “root cause” of the attacks against it. In a remarkable exploration of the “Mind of the Left,” Horowitz traces the evolution of American radicalism from its Communist past to its “anti-war” present. He then shows how this Left was able to turn the Democratic Party presidential campaign around and reshape its views on the War on Terror.

Horowitz’s Unholy Alliance, writes John Haynes, the noted historian of American Communism, “is an insightful, brilliant examination of the mental world of the radical left. Horowitz shows how today’s radicals, unwilling to reflect on the internal flaws that destroyed Marxism-Leninism from within, have embraced an all-consuming nihilism in its place. This has led them to a hatred of American institutions and a solidarity with Islamic terrorists that makes the radical left more properly regarded as dangerous than loony.”

Unholy Alliance is an eye-opening book that should unsettle conventional assumptions and reveals why intellectuals and political leaders who applaud Michael Moore are no laughing matter. As Harvey Klehr, author of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, writes, “The world Communist movement may be moribund, but its habits of mind and ideological fantasies have not disappeared. This is a fascinating and depressing account.”

Price: $19.01 - Click here to order:

[sageb1]

Put me on your ping list! This is great!

[ItsForTheChildren]

My mother is a secular Jew who came to the United States with her family, refugees from Germany during the Holocaust. My father grew up in the Methodist Church in Texas, but was greatly influenced by his Catholic Mother, and self identified as an athiest. My step-father is a practicing Buddhist, with Taoist leanings. I have chosen the Sufi path, on which I have been walking for over a dozen years. The initial lure of this path was the ecumenical nature of it, including practices from all of the world's traditions as an acknowledgement of the unity of all religious and spiritual ideals. I married a fellow Sufi, who grew up in the Unitarian Universalist Church studying Norse Mythology, and who has subsequently become a Muslim. When our son was born a year ago I discovered some of the inescapable bonds to my Judaism, which I am currently exploring.

Geez... I really feel for the kid. Probably going to be another one of those who are constantly "exploring" themselves and accomplishing little else. Probably end up a professor (and I use the term loosely) just like mommy.

[blackie]

Hang 'em High ~ Bump!

[Busywhiskers]

Well...one more reason not to contribute to the alumni association of my old alma mater...as if I needed one.


PSU Class of 82

[SunnySide]

Course Description: This one credit course will explore the United States’ fascination with the making of enemies. We will consider the various influences that contribute to a climate of ready hatred, considering the many political, social and economic motivations, as well as their ramifications.

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So do these type of college anti-American courses give the flip side of the coin, I bet they don't. How about teach how Taliban males make enemies of the female gender. Someone needs to slap a burqua on this ditzy broad professor, put her down on her knees with a rifle to the back of her head in a soccer stadium and order her to explain why she should get to live after being raped. I mean, if it's good enough for innocent middle eastern women it should be good enough for her, right? (disgusted sarcasm)

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Professor Amanda Byron, Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution

Advanced college degrees in specialized programs are a good indication that someone had plenty of idle time, and somebody else’s money.

[junta]

The alienation factor at it again, what a tired shtick. Someone please tell this bimbo to go grow up and stop it with the "woe is me, the oppressed."

[Eaker]

Good idea and good job.

Thanks,
Eaker

Y'all come check this out.

[Truthsayer20]

My grandmother, who was 5 feet tall, told stories of getting into fist fights with SS Soldiers, proving herself to be the victor time and time again.

Grandmother has been telling some pretty creative lies.

[Tunehead54]

Good Project bump! Add me to your ping list if you've got one!

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