法制与新闻英语

《法制与新闻》是一门全校公选的双语课。本课程的主要目的在于介绍新闻和法律有关的问题，如言论自由、消息自由、侵犯名誉、隐私、保密、新闻来源、新闻审查、广告、版权等。同时附以一些时事新闻，让学生在实文中学习相关新闻与法制的内容，了解靠前及英美国家法制热点问题及动态，并通过范文的学习，掌握法制新闻及法律英语词汇、熟悉英语语篇规律，解读长句难句技巧，提高英语语言能力。本课程比较注重实践，运用一些视频材料，通过陈述、讨论、速读、复述、解释等手段教学，是学生学习法律英语的一门重要的辅助课程，并对提高学生的英语语篇阅读能力及视听说能力都有很大帮助。

Unit 1 News
1. What Is NEWS?
2. News Sources
3. Why Do We Need News?
4. Etymology
5. History
6. Forums of News
7. Online Journalism
8. Newsworthiness
9. New Ecology of News
Unit 2 Relations Between Law and Media
1. What Is Law?
2. Why Do We Need Laws?
3. What Is Media?
4. Communications & Media Law
5. Who Regulates Communications?
Unit 3 Freedom of Speech and Expression
1. Importance of Freedom of Speech and Expression
2. The Racial Discrimination Act Amendments
3. Relative Freedom of Speech
4. Conclusions
Unit 4 Freedom of Information
1. Freedom of Information (or Information Freedom)
2. The Information Society and Freedom of Expression
3. Hacktivismo
4. Global Network Initiative
5. Internet Censorship
Unit 5 Defamation
1. Definition
2. Types of Torts: Slander and Libel
3. Criminal Defamation
4. Defenses
5. Defamation and Freedom of Speech
Unit 6 Contempt of Court and Trial by Media
1. Contempt of Court
2. Trial by Media
Unit 7 Privacy
1. Privacy
2. Types of Privacy
3. The Right to Privacy
4. Privacy Protection
Unit 8 Confidentiality
1. Confidentiality
2. Legal Confidentiality
3. History of the English Law of Confidentiality
4. Medical Confidentiality
5. Clinical Psychology
Unit 9 Journalism Sourcing
1. Overview
2. Using Confidential Information
3. Anonymous Sources
4. Not on Tape
5. Attribution
6. Ethics
7. "Speaking Terms"
8. Neologisms
Unit 10 Censorship
1. Censorship
2. Rationale
3. Political Censorship
4. Censorship of State Secrets and Prevention of Attention
5. Censorship of Educational Sources
6. Censorship in Music and Popular Culture
7. Copy, Picture, and Writer Approval
8. Censorship of Maps
9. Meta Censorship
10. Creative Censorship
11. Censorship Implementation
12. Internet Censorship
Unit 11 Advertising
1. Public Service Advertising
2. Types of Advertising
3. Media and Advertising Approaches
4. Criticism of Advertising
5. Regulation
6. Future
Unit 12 Copyright
1. Justification
2. Exclusive Rights Granted by Copyright
3. Works Subject to Copyright
4. International Copyright Law
5. Copyright by Country
6. Obtaining Copyright
7. Copyright Enforcement
8. Limits and Exceptions to Copyright
9. Copyright as Property Right
Vocabulary
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