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    Dan Morris
 Arbiter Advisor

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E-Mail:   dmorris@boisestate.edu
Phone:   The Arbiter  345-8204 Ext. 121
Office:   The Arbiter - 1605 University Drive
               The Arbiter is on the corner of Lincoln and University on the East side of the new
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Syllabi and Courses - SPRING 2008:
COMM 119/319 Comm Activities Newspaper
COMM 273,  001 Reporting and News Writing
COMM 590 - Advanced Journalistic Writing

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Teaching Specialties:  Mass Communication Theory, Law Reporting, Graphics, Public Affairs Reporting

Research Interests/Activities:  Q Methodology, Oral History, George Lewis Case, Minority News Coverage

Biography:
     Dan Morris (Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1988) teaches courses in reporting, news writing and editing, magazine writing, online and database research, visual communication, and communication technology and policy. He is the faculty adviser to The Arbiter, the twice-weekly student newspaper, and http://arbiteronline.com
     He has served as an officer of regional and national advisers'  and professionals' groups, is a former head of the Communication Technology and Policy Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and serves on the AEJMC Internationalization Task Force. During recent summers, he has taught journalism professionals and faculty in the former Soviet Union. Specifically, under the auspices of the Soros Foundation and agencies contracting with the Agency for International Development, he has taught in Kyrgystan and the Republic of Georgia.  
     The emerging mass media climate in the newly independent Soviet states and issues relating to college student media. The application of William Stephenson's Q methodology to survey research in Communication technology and policy.