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Spring 2009
MCS 222 Introduction to Media & Communication 3 credits
Studies
Grade Method: REG
GEP/GFR:Meets AH. "Introduction to Media
& Communication Studies" This course
offers students an introduction to the
critical perspectives and research methods
that are central to the analysis of mass
communication policy and programming, new
media, interpersonal communication, and
audience reception. The course will
provide students the skills to design and
apply a range of interdisciplinary
concepts and methods to media analysis
projects. Themes of the course will
situate various forms of media within
specific historical and cultural contexts.
[4274] 0101 TuTh......10:00am-11:15am (ACIV011) SNYDER, D
[4275] 0201 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (ACIV011) SNYDER, D
MCS 333 History and Theory of Mass Communication 3 credits
and Media Studies
Grade Method: REG This course will
introduce students to the history of the
discipline of mass communications and
media studies, which have their origins in
the sociology of "mass society" at the
turn of the twentieth century in the US
and Europe. The course will chart the
shift from a "Mass Communications"
approach emphasizing "media effects"
(which includes both industry-friendly US
scholarship and Marxist European
critiques) to newer "media studies"
approaches that emerged in the 1970s as
part of a larger shift in studies of human
behavior and expressive culture. The
course will consider the ways that changes
in the technologies of communication,
information, entertainment, and
surveillance have helped to shape the
paradigms under which scholars study
audiences, messages, and culture.
Further, the course will examine how these
same changes have shaped the way producers
think about and communicate with
audiences.
[4276] 0101 M..........4:30pm- 7:00pm (SOND107) REGALES, J
MCS 370 Special Topics in Media and Communication 3 credits
Studies : Life During Wartime: A
Multidisciplinary Investigation
Grade Method: REG Also listed as AMST 355.
This course is designed to bring the wars
in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the "war on
terror" into clearer focus for students
using multiple disciplinary perspectives
and methods.
[7558] 0101 TuTh.......1:00pm- 2:15pm (PUP 105) LOVIGLIO, J
MCS 377 Desktop Publishing and the Web 3 credits
Grade Method: REG Course meets in ENG 336.
[7529] 0101 MW.........4:00pm- 5:50pm (TBA) CUSTEN, C
MCS 404 Internship 3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: P-F Individual Instruction
course: contact department or instructor
for permission to enroll.
[4278] 0101 Time and room to be arranged SNYDER, D
[4279] 0201 Time and room to be arranged REGALES, J
MCS 499 Capstone Senior Seminar 3 credits
Grade Method: REG
[4280] 0101 W..........4:30pm- 7:30pm (SOND207) SNYDER, D