Analysis of Audio/Visual Media: Form, Style, and Meaning

4 credits

This course builds the critical skills to understand, analyze, interpret audio/visual media by introducing students to the basic vocabulary and grammar of audio and moving image texts—how they create meaning through compositional form and narrative style—and key critical methodologies for interpreting media culture. Concepts covered will lay the groundwork for continued study in scholarly communication areas and hands-on sound, film/video, and/or social media production. No credit for COMM 20 if taken after COMM 20R.