Introduction to the Study of Communication: Communication and the Individual

4 credits

This course will draw on theorists who examine human nature as constituted by social, material, and historical circumstances. This course considers the media in relation to the ontogenetic and historical development of the human being and an examination of the individual as socially constituted in a language-using medium. The role of new communication technologies as part of research methodologies is explored in lecture-seminar. Restricted to major code CM75. Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.