INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social 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: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify news networks like China’s CGTN, Al Jazeera English, and Africanews. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Evaluate how these networks impact (and are impacted by) globalization. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Chart the impact of digitization, on global news networks. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify the changing systems of cultural meaning that are related to changes in international news. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. 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. Identify news networks like China’s CGTN, Al Jazeera English, and Africanews. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Evaluate how these networks impact (and are impacted by) globalization. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Chart the impact of digitization, on global news networks. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify the changing systems of cultural meaning that are related to changes in international news. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Critically evaluate ideas from different sources, integrating (or contrasting) different theories, deriving new testable hypotheses, or develop variations on theoretical models. Audience: Graduate