Debating Free Speech Now

Instructor: Carolyn Marvin

Instructor's Bio: Carolyn Marvin was a professor of communication from 1980 to 2019 in the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she was a journalist at the Atlanta Constitution. For many years, she taught a well-regarded undergraduate seminar for upperclassmen at Penn called History and Theory of Freedom of Expression. The course draws on her experience conducting free-flowing discussion across changes in the political climate over those decades. 

SYLLABUS

1) Introduction

2) Is There a Legal Path to Controlling Disinformation?

3) Is Money (In the Form of Campaign Contributions) Speech?

4) When Is Speech a True Threat or an Incitement to Violence?

5) Art and the Cast for Control: 'The Death of Klinghoffer'

6) What's Going on at Universities?