© 2024 MICHIGAN PUBLIC
91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

U of M to offer class on recognizing fake news

BRANDON NGUYEN / FLICKR

A new class at the University of Michigan hopes to help students be savvier news consumers.

The course, called "Fake News, Lies, and Propaganda: How to Sort Fact From Fiction", will be available next fall.

Angie Oehrli is a University of Michigan librarian who helped develop the course. She hopes the class will provide tangible skills for students to recognize and avoid fabricated stories that pass themselves off as legitimate news.

"These are issues that don't have simple answers, and so the class will help students develop habits of mind when it comes to news literacy," Oehrli says.

Fake, sensational and disreputable news have become a topic of interest for educators across the U.S. since the presidential election. Oehrli says the topic is complex, but important for students to understand.

Related Content