Here is an archive containing my incomplete History and Context of Journalism notes that I have written as part of my university credit. HCJ is essentially a crash course on important historical events, combined with any philosophical undercurrents that may have influenced them; or as the university website describes it, "A short history of ideas." It aims to provide you with a basis for some intelligent commentary on current events.
Year One:
Introduction to HCJ
Aristotle, Descartes, Machiavelli
John Locke - Tabula Rasa
Joseph Addison - The Spectator
Mary Wollstonecraft - Feminism
Rousseau - Romanticism
Romanticism Continued
Kant, Hegel - Idealism
Year Two:
Economics - Keynes General Theory
Hermeneutics and Frege
Modernism, Hearst and Harmsworth
The Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
Seminar Paper on Logic
Existentialism
Logical Positivism and Wittgenstein
The New Journalism
