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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.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course looks at the invisible power of music over lives, exploring how music can influence how people feel, what they think and how they think. Exploration of music's social power, delving into its rich history at the center of politics, religion and a multibillion dollar global industry. Consideration of music's relationship to technology and how changes in the media landscape are altering the role music plays in human life.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Examine music's role as a major communicative form in human history.
- Discuss music as an expression of a diverse range of cultures.
- Utilize an analytical language for discussing musical communication.
- Describe major elements of the economics and politics of musical industries.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Examines relationship between media and institutions, and the processes through which people and societies make political choices.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Examine the role of the mass media in the American political system.