The City Through Film: Built Environment in Mass Media

Catalog description

Through weekly film and multi-media screenings, discussions, readings, and critiques, explores themes of architectural design, urban imagery, inner cities, suburbia, environmental design, physical development, community planning, politics, and their futures in mass media. The built environment serves as a medium that transmits, reinforces and reproduces social values, attitudes and behaviors. Examines how institutions attempt to shape public perspectives using images of the built environment through mass media. May be offered on an intermittent basis. This course is the same as ARC 320, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.