COMM 350 - Media Criticism

Inquiry into how media messages (broadcasts, cinema, magazines, advertising, or news programs) shape cultural practices and legacies. Focus is on critiquing media messages in ways that reveal the distinctions between mediated and non-mediated messages. Various critical frameworks (e.g., semiotic, feminist, Marxist) are examined and applied to media messages.

Prerequisites: COMM 382 - Communication Theory, and junior or senior status.
Credits: 3
NOTE:
* This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement.
** This is a writing-enhanced course.
*** The Communication Course Fee applies to this course.