Description
328: Communication and Social Theory.
Goal: To explore, appreciate, and understand the changing conceptions of media and its consequent theorization over the course of the twentieth century.
Content: Discussion of primary readings in media theory as it was advanced by the Chicago and Frankfurt schools and as it is now conceived in the traditions of Cultural Studies and postmodernism.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: COM 103 and COM 215, or permission of instructor.
Credit: 3 hours.