MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing; not open to special students Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Critique how communication and society shape each other by examining social structure - how society works - and how it fits with the general structures of communication and media. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Characterize what social and communication structures make the democratic way of life sustainable and ask whether they are still strong enough in a networked society. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Evaluate how communication and community do and do not work together. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain what community means, how it is changing, whether communication is necessary for community, and whether community is necessary for a democratic society. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Appraise the networked society and ask how it transforms all these previous themes - society, democracy, and community. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Critically evaluate ideas from different sources, integrating (or contrasting) different theories, deriving new testable hypotheses, or develop variations on theoretical models. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Critique how communication and society shape each other by examining social structure - how society works - and how it fits with the general structures of communication and media. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Characterize what social and communication structures make the democratic way of life sustainable and ask whether they are still strong enough in a networked society. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Evaluate how communication and community do and do not work together. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain what community means, how it is changing, whether communication is necessary for community, and whether community is necessary for a democratic society. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Appraise the networked society and ask how it transforms all these previous themes - society, democracy, and community. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Critically evaluate ideas from different sources, integrating (or contrasting) different theories, deriving new testable hypotheses, or develop variations on theoretical models. Audience: Graduate