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Section 1: Texts

Core

  • Digital Access
    • “Many Americans Say Made-Up News Is a Critical Problem That Needs to Be Fixed,” Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried, Galen Stocking, Mason Walker, and Sophia Fedeli, Pew Research Center, 2019
    • “Privacy and Information Sharing,” Lee Rainie and Maeve Duggan, Pew Research Center, 2016
  • Tradebook
    • 1984, George Orwell, Signet Classics, 1949
  • Unit Reader
    • “Critical Thinking for College, Career, and Citizenship,” Diane F. Halpern, Brookings Institute, 2016

Optional

  • Digital Access
    • “What is Dystopian Fiction?,” Masterclass, Masterclass, 2019
  • Unit Reader
    • “Defining Fake News: A Typology of Scholarly Definitions,” Edson C. Tadnoc, Jr., Zheng Wei Lim, and Richard Ling, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2018
    • “The Age-Old Problem of ‘Fake News’,” Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian Institution, 2018