Description
215: Introduction to Media Studies.
Goal: To introduce students to the major theoretical, critical, and methodological approaches to media studies.
Content: Readings, discussion, and analysis of media texts and artifacts. Critical methodologies studied will include semiotics, structuralism and poststructuralism, cultural studies, ideological criticism, Marxist analysis, psychoanalytic criticism, sociological analysis, and feminist criticism.
Taught: Annually.
Credit: 3 hours.