CULTURAL HISTORY OF BROADCASTING

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: COM ARTS 250 or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify major events, ideas, and institutions from the history of American broadcasting Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze a range of television and radio programs and evaluate such programs as historical documents with relevance to American cultural, technological, and industrial histories Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe the ways television and radio programs engage issues of class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, region, and nationhood Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Evaluate primary and secondary sources as historical evidence and determine the range of historical claims such evidence supports Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Practice the skills needed to conduct historical research and writing Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Identify and pursue opportunities to contribute to the field of broadcasting history Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify major events, ideas, and institutions from the history of American broadcasting Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze a range of television and radio programs and evaluate such programs as historical documents with relevance to American cultural, technological, and industrial histories Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe the ways television and radio programs engage issues of class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, region, and nationhood Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Evaluate primary and secondary sources as historical evidence and determine the range of historical claims such evidence supports Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Practice the skills needed to conduct historical research and writing Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Identify and pursue opportunities to contribute to the field of broadcasting history Audience: Graduate