Television & Media Histories

Catalog description

This course introduces students to histories of television and other digital media programming that may include specific shows, trends, industry practices, and TV's greater significance in U.S. society. Students watch television, read histories of television, and write critical analyses of television that connect programming to aesthetic, economic, and regulatory influences while exploring the overall socio-cultural implications of television. Students work with current and past talent and producers at local area television stations to create and analyze primary artifacts (such as scripts, memos, and other production materials as well as creating oral histories) that will be archived in Special Collections at Murphy Library at UWL. Prerequisite: CST 190 , CST 271 . Offered Occasionally.