Communication 121 - Intro to Media and Culture

An introduction to the social role of mass media in advanced industrial Western societies, focusing on how relationships between mass communications and the surrounding economic framework affect cultural, political, and ideological processes in society. An examination of social and historical contexts within which newspapers, radio, and television developed and how they are structured with attention to both the domestic and international implications of treating mass media as just another industry.

Open to Sophomores & Freshmen only. COMM 121 is one of the five 100-level courses that can be used as prerequisites for applying to the major.