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Extraordinary. I am co-teaching a 300 level course with an syllabus and
intent that is so close to the one you are teaching that wheh I first read
your message I ignored it because I thought my colleague had sent me
a redundant description of our course. The course teaches issues in global
communication. We have a www page and all class assignments are conducted 
in online discussion groups. There are 150 students in the class. The
students are divided into 5 online "boards" for discussion. They have also
been formed into 35 reserach units of 4 to use the Internet to seek out
and use documents to develop term paprs on the relationship between
global communication and the environment; peace/war-diplomacy; alternative
journalism; gender; cultural identities.

This is the third time I have designed a course of this kind. The first was
at Carelton U. in Canada in 1986. Professor Jay Weston is still teaching
the course as both a 300 level and a graduate level. His class , web page,
and the many years of collected graduate papers (archived in the web page)
on issues of communication, technology and culture should be essential
staring points for your students. I put the link to his web page at
the top of the core page for our web page.

I do not have all the uRLs in front of me as I write. But I don't mind
taking part. You should definetly get hold of Weston. He also started Canad's
first FreeNet.

Brian Martin Murphy
bmmurphy@comm.umass.edu