Media and Society

3 credits · Undergraduate Programs

Employing a critical sociological approach, explore the many forms in which our understandings of gender, ethnicity, and other social phenomena, are informed and in turn inform the many mediascapes that characterize the contemporary world. Uses analysis of media such as cinema, television, videogames, animation and the Internet, as well as their respective audiences, to delve into the interconnections between modern subjectivity and the imagined worlds of mass and new media. Prerequisite(s): Sociology 201.