American Studies 100 - IDEAS IN AMERICAN STUDY

Fall
2014
01
1.00
Michael Thurston
W 07:30-09:00
Smith College
20354-F14
FORD 240
mthursto@smith.edu
Topics Course: On the Media This one-credit lecture series course surveys the history of media in America from the colonial period to the present. Lectures will address broadsides, newspapers and magazines, radio, film, television and contemporary digital media, and in each case will focus on how media construct political and social subjects and shape values, desires and debates in American culture. These combinations of survey and case study will bring into the discussion of media some treatment of the large themes with which American studies is concerned: race, ethnicity, gender, technology;consumerism, leisure, selfhood, style; humor, music, and the rapid expansion of America?s service economy. Can be repeated twice for credit with a different topic. (E) Course taught by AMS faculty members (coordinated by Michael Thurston)
Topic: On the Media.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.