COMM333: Media and Culture

Level
Undergraduate
School
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Subject
Credits 3

Seeks to foster a greater appreciation and understanding of the impact that the mass media exert on society. Emphasizes especially the power of mediated imagery with regard to race, gender, and class and the ways in which media representation can serve to either reify or subvert existing practices of social stratification and control. Prerequisite: COMM130.