International Communication.

Catalog description

This course uses qualitative (hermeneutic, ethnographic, discourse analysis) and quantitative methods to critically explore the infrastructure that allows for the movement of mediated messages across national boundaries, and the cultural, sociopolitical, and geopolitical effects of that transmission. Topics include news and entertainment flow, media systems and philosophies, cultural dependency and imperialism, the new world information order, communication development, and the role of racial, ethnic, gender, and national identity in an increasingly globalized mediasphere.