1. CLASS SYLLABUS : Let’s go !

2. Chap 1 : School today versus old school
Film : « Dead Poets’ society », Peter Weir
Ivy league universities
Video : « Caning in New-Zealand  »
Caning in New-Zealand
Corporal punishment in the USA
Text : « Caning, a eulogy »
Debate : pros or cons caning ?

3. Chap 2 : TV networks & Junk media
Video : « Big Media »
Junk media
Media control
Film : « Farenheit 9/11 », Michael Moore
Media lies and corruption
If it bleeds it leads
Text : « Fox company », Times
Roger Ailes, Fox’s CEO
Song « The Revolution will not be televised », Gil Scott Heron
Black power versus White media
Malcom X and NAACP
Martin Luther King and Civil rights movement
Debate : Media ethics

4. Chap 3 : TV ADDICTION Video « TV mind control »
Geeks and TV addiction
Article « TV Addiction »
American people’s TV habits
TV as the new opium of the people
Debate : TV or not TV
Homework : make a poll

5. Chap 4 : Internet and global connections
Video : film « The Social Network »
Mark Zuckerberg’s story
Harvard University
Facebook
Social networking and word of mouth communication
Texte : « A self made hero », NY Times
Tradition of the self made men in America
The American Dream
Bill Gates, Microsoft and billionaires
Class debate : social networks
Homework : create a webpage
Webdesign
webmastering

6. Chap 5 : The digital Revolution : the world’s divide
Video : video revolution
Texte : « Internet reaches out to Bengladesh »,
The haves and the have nots
Bengladesh as a developing country
The internet divide
Class debate : Internet and globalization

7. Chap 6 : Advertising Video : History of advertising
Advertising and branding
No Logo movement with Naomie Klein
Text : « Outdoor advertising », The Economist
Time Square, New-York
Indoor and outdoor advertising
Advertising strategies
Class debate : Ad campaigners versus no logo movement

8. Chap 7 : From Hollywood to Nollywood : Myth and heroes
Film : « 20th Century fox »
Hollywood
American stars and the golden age
American film industry
Film : « Shark » by Gordon Parks
Blaxploitation and the rebirth of Hollywood
Black is beautiful and Black Power
Article : «Blaxploitation »
Gordon Parks « the camera as a weapon »
Funk music and Black power
Article : « Nollywood industry »
New landmarks
Developing versus developed countries
Class debate : becoming a star
Homework : make a video biopic of your favorite star

9. Chap 8 : American superpower
Video : « Crossing the border »,conservative
ad-campaign
Republican anti-immigration policies
Immigration quotas and fence
Border patrol
Text : « Wetbacks », NY Times
Post-war immigration
Racism in Arizona, California, Nevada
Film : « Bread and Roses », Ken Loach
Mexican immigrants
Job discrimination and profiling
Debate : conservatives versus democrats