COM 23800 - Media, Culture, Society

This course surveys mediated communication platforms through which we receive, learn, express, and exchange culture. By considering the multitude of communication channels and processes, the course explores tropes of agency, production, and reception. It considers how perceptions of cultures are constructed, how meaning is produced, as well as the social, economic, and political forces that shape contemporary cultural practices.

Cr. 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Explore and analyze your own experience consuming media products.
2. Critically analyze media constructions of cultures and identities.
3. Demonstrate the skills to “read” media texts within different cultural contexts.
4. Demonstrate awareness and sensitivity to cultural issues pertaining to media representations.