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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:200, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
This course examines the nature and impact of emerging media technology. Students study four primary ways new technology influences media, including 1) how media professionals do their work, 2) the nature of media content, 3) the relationships between and among media and relevant publics, and 4) the structure, culture and management of media organizations and systems. Five areas of media technology are studied, including 1) acquisition tools, 2) storage technologies, 3) processing devices, 4) distribution technologies and 5) display, access or presentation tools.
(This course was formerly numbered 04:567:330)
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Conceive of new media and their implications for journalism and society.
- Understand weblogs and other new media that are transforming journalism.
- Think critically about new media and their consequences.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Content, treatment, and effects of women and minority group coverage in television, newspapers, magazines, popular music and film.
(This course was formerly numbered 04:567:334)
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand how media shape culture and society, becoming more critical consumers of media.
- Recognize how the economic structuring of the media relates to media content; understand the psychological and political effects of stereotyping.
- Learn about actions and policies that encourage more diversified media representations of women, people of color and other historically underrepresented populations.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Historical and contemporary social, cultural, political, and economic issues related to digital media in society.
(This course was formerly numbered 04:567:351)
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Recognize the history and development of digital media starting with digital and networked computing.
- Illustrate and explain salient political, social, cultural, and economic issues and factors related to digital media in society.
- Examine and reflect critically on relationships between digital media and institutions, relationships, politics, and/or the environment.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Survey of critical approaches to the analysis of media and its impact on society.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate proficiency in the key methods of textual analysis in the field of media studies.
- Properly conduct original, scholarly research on a variety of media texts.
- Analyze how to construct meaning after observing or interacting with various genre of mass media.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course examines children's relationship to media in its historic, economic, political, and social contexts. It begins by reviewing theories of child development as they inform children's relationship with and understanding of media. Next, it considers the political and economic forces that shape the landscape of children’s media. Against this backdrop, the course examines research on the effects of media on children's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development. Class time consists of lectures, screenings, and visits from professionals working in the field. Students in this course produce a proposal or prototype for an educational children’s media property as their final project.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze and evaluate the forces that shape the creation of cultural products for children.
- Explain children’s place in the broader economic and political context of media systems.
- Explain the meaning of media content to children of different ages, stages, cultures, and contexts.
- Appraise how children’s media connections and experiences are bound in their social relationships with family, friends, and other influential individuals.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Specialized topics related to the practice of journalism are offered on a regular basis.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Specialized topics related to the practice of journalism are offered on a regular basis.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Specialized topics related to the practice of journalism are offered on a regular basis.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Provides a critical understanding of advertising's role in society. Examines the history of advertising, the commercial and social aspects of the messages conveyed by ads, and the advertising industry's influence on social relations and institutions, such as journalism. The basic orientation of the course is to study consumer media culture (advertising, public relations, and branded space) as a form unique to modern society.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Reason critically when discussing advertising.
- Demonstrate and exercise an independence of thought.
- Respond to issues identified by others in the course.
- Research, summarize and develop an argument.
- Deploy analytic strategies for interpreting ad texts.
- Develop their skills of exegesis and critique.
- Develop a greater command of a range of presentation skills.
- Gain experience in conducting research, using at least one of a range of methodological approaches and drawing on a variety of sources, including academic and industry generated material.
- Learned to work both independently and collaboratively, effectively managing their time.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course takes a critical approach to understanding new media environments, especially with regard to what has been called at various moments “social media,” “participatory culture,” “digital media,” “convergence,” “Web 2.0,” “social web,” and “interactive media” among other things. Rather than focus on these emerging media practices as purely technological phenomena, the course situates them in broader social, political, and historical contexts. We will examine key dimensions of cultural life that make up our selves, including friendship, intimacy, labor, celebrity, power, gender, control, race, sexuality, activism, and privacy.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of approaches to, and debates surrounding, the emergence of social media and convergence in society.
- Describe the implications of social media on social interactions and political participation.