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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Status Corequisites: None
Examines interactions between media and political institutions, actors and processes, in light of theories of journalism, communication and political practice.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand theories of globalization and contexts through which cultural experiences, information, and ideologies are mediated by a range of media.
- Analyze and evaluate the negotiations and dynamics of power through which institutions, producers, and users mobilize using these media technologies.
- Research, write, and digitally present emerging issues, uncover, and critique these dynamics.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Status, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Examines the influence of entertainment media on political news, opinion, knowledge, and behavior.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Recognize how, why, and with what significance the boundaries between news and entertainment have blurred
- Identify and describe the effects of entertainment on journalism, citizenship, and politics, as well as the theories used to explain these effects
- Develop persuasive, evidence-based arguments about the intersection of entertainment and politics and its implications for public discourse and engagement
- Evaluate how political entertainment texts construct political reality and encourage audiences to make meaning of politics
- Apply theories and concepts from research in communication, media studies, and political science in order to develop an entertainment-based political strategy or media product
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:206 or 04:567:302, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Long-form video journalism storytelling developed over a significant period of time teaching students critical thinking, research, writing skills and various production techniques.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Apply skills learned in the classroom to an off-campus or professional media environment.
- Describe and relate subject-related theory to the practical applications learned
- Innovate tools and technologies appropriate for media professions
- Research, produce, and critique documentary and news magazine broadcast
- Develop production skills such as one-man band filming techniques, editing with AVID software, and writing scripts, arranging shoots, interviewing and identifying characters, and developing stories
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:215 Gender, Race, and Class in the Media Corequisites: None
This course examines how race is produced, represented, and contested through media institutions, technologies, and cultural practices. Drawing on critical race studies, media studies, and cultural studies, the course explores how media shapes racial meaning, sustains hierarchies of power, and serves as a site of resistance and transformation. Students will analyze news, film, advertising, digital platforms, and emerging technologies to understand how race operates across local, national, and global contexts.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain race as a social, political, and historical construction rather than a biological fact, and identify how whiteness operates structurally within media institutions and industries.
- Analyze media texts using key theories of representation, ideology, and power, and connect media representations to broader systems of empire, capitalism, and state power.
- Critically assess stereotypes, controlling images, and racialized narratives across media forms, and examine how technology, algorithms, and surveillance reproduce racial inequality.
- Evaluate media activism and antiracist interventions critically and historically.
- Produce original, well-supported analyses of media and race in written and/or creative forms.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Status, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Surveys and critiques of social science research on news, journalists and the news media.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic Corequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic
Contemporary topics in media studies will be offered on an ad hoc basis.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic Corequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic
Contemporary topics in media studies will be offered on an ad hoc basis.
Learning Objectives
As Appropriate for the Topic
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic Corequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic
Contemporary topics in media studies will be offered on an ad hoc basis.
Learning Objectives
As Appropriate for the Topic
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic Corequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic
Contemporary issues in media studies will be offered on an ad hoc basis.
Learning Objectives
As Appropriate for the Topic
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Status, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Analyzes debates about media and cultural globalization, and theories about international media.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand topics and debates about media and cultural globalization.
- Critically evaluate theories and arguments in the study of international media.