COMM 186Media, Ethics, and the Digital Age
Communication · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of media ethics using a case-study approach to debate pressing issues from actual newsrooms. Students participate in a Socratic discussion of fairness, bias, and the personal and societal implications of the printed, broadcast, and digitized word.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.