Media, Culture, and Society

Catalog description

In this course students will develop a critical understanding about the ways that media influences our culture and helps to shape society’s institutions. The course addresses the linkages between media, culture and society as they relate to technology, industry, government, representation, audiences, and discourses of democracy, ideology, and equality. Students will be introduced to a variety of conceptual themes and theoretical approaches to the critical study of media and focus on how media are powerfully situated in relation to our own lives.