Media and Society
SOC 234
Spring 2020 not offered
|
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
| Course Cluster: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate |
This course offers an introduction to the study of media, with a focus on critical social perspectives and controversies. A variety of media formats will be considered, with particular attention to print and visual images. The course takes up questions of representation, participation, consumerism, pleasure, and power that have dominated sociological and cultural studies approaches to media since the Frankfurt School. Topics will include advertising and branding, pornography, photojournalism, alternative media, social control, stereotypes, and objectification. Students will engage historical and theoretical texts and will be asked to participate in media processes, including production, interpretation, and critique. |
|
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: SOC151 |
|
Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT)(SOC)(STS) |
Major Readings:
Course reader, including works by Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, C. Wright Mills, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Ong, John Fiske, Rey Chow, bell hooks, Christine Harold, Neil Postman, Jodi Dean.
|
Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly journal, final paper |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 0 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
|
|