This course will provide an overview of the theories, tensions, and debates within the study of critical media literacy as it applies to K-12 classrooms and community organizations. Current practical and analytic research in this area will be examined. This course has a required civic engagement component; students will work with and on behalf of youth in the community on media literacy-related projects. This course is one of the required courses for the Media Literacy Certificate and satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.

This course combines reading and discussion with application of theoretically informed methods in the study of everyday social interaction. We will: 1) Read and discuss representative studies of social interaction and communicative behavior in cultural context. 2) Do graduated classroom and field exercises to assemble methodological tools and accumulate data for your final paper. The final paper will be based on accumulated data - especially recordings and transcripts - from your field site. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.

This course analyzes the history of television, starting with its roots in radio broadcasting, moving through television?s network era, into the age of cable and narrowcasting, and then arriving at the latest developments in digital television and streaming. With a focus primarily on the U.S. television industry, the course will consider economic, political, regulatory, technological, and cultural transformations and contexts for the development of commercially operated and sponsored programming (as well as some alternatives).

This course analyzes the history of television, starting with its roots in radio broadcasting, moving through television?s network era, into the age of cable and narrowcasting, and then arriving at the latest developments in digital television and streaming. With a focus primarily on the U.S. television industry, the course will consider economic, political, regulatory, technological, and cultural transformations and contexts for the development of commercially operated and sponsored programming (as well as some alternatives).

In this class, we will examine the role of communication in the construction of race as a basis for similarity/difference, theways that communication about race intersects with other social group categories to form a basis for individual, social, cultural and national identities. We will look at race as a dynamic of power that is both embedded and performed in contexts and institutions, in relation(ship) to others.

From Hollywood to Bollywood, Korean Dramas to Netflix Originals, media finds transnational and diasporic audiences around the world and are remade, re-used, and remixed. This course will unpack theories of globalization and other processes facilitating the cross-border flow of various media. Case studies and assignments will be focused on the production, distribution, and reception of entertainment media from different parts of the world. In addition to reading responses and a midterm paper, students will complete a group project on a country and media product of their choice.

This is a stand-alone independent study designed by the student and faculty sponsor that involves frequent interaction between instructor and student. Qualitative and quantitative enrichment must be evident on the proposed contract before consent is given to undertake the study.

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