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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

COM 34900 - Media and Culture


This course surveys film, music, art, popular magazines, television, and other media in terms of their symbolic relationship to diverse and cultural practices including among others, religion, romance, dance, sport, recreation, hobbies, and cusine, and their connection to broader ethic, gender, and class cultural expressions. To understand how media represent, express, and contribute to contemporary culture practices, students will consider mass market novels, professional sports, museums, music videos, talk radio, Hollywood and independent film, narrow cast cable television, websites, and  other mass media genre. Typically offered fall, spring and summer.

Preparation for Course
P: COM 22800 or COM 25000

Cr. 3.