Faculty Name

Christa Ward

Document Type

Syllabi

School

CLA

Department

COMM

Course Subject

COMM

Course Number

COMM

Course Section

1320

Course Title

Intro: Critical Media Studies

Academic Term and Year

Spring 2015

Credits

4.00

Area of Study

CSTD, IJRN

Course Description

Goals: To introduce students to conceptual frameworks of critical media studies; to create savvy media consumers by teaching them to understand forces behind media institutions that influence the ways they create messages; to learn to construct and express oral arguments pertaining to media issues more effectively and more academically. Content: New media and old media, media theory, communications infrastructure, media ownership, media impact, media policy and law, media ethics. Taught: Annually. Prerequisites: None. Credits: 4 credits

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