History of Media Theory: The Humanities Tradition

3 credits · Graduate credit

The purpose of this class is to provide students with an intellectual history of media theory and criticism since the 1920s. Students will read many classic primary texts, and/or interpretations of those texts that dramatically influenced the evolution of media theory and communications research in the 20th century. Students will also read several recent applications of media theory to analyses of media history and to the rise of mass culture.