MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine the (often unquestioned) models of communication in society that inform our own areas of research. Audience: Graduate 2. Critique influential works of social theory that have been widely adopted in the study of media and communication, as well as critical perspectives interrogating that work. Audience: Graduate 3. Explore what role(s) do media and communication play in the argument about how human societies are structured, how they change, how power is reproduced, what variables count in studying society. Audience: Graduate 4. Compare the conceptual tools theories offer for studying questions of interest to scholars of media and communication. Audience: Graduate 5. Critically evaluate how different theory's central ideas and assumptions impact research in our own respective subfields, whether political communication, journalism studies, disinformation studies, etc. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine the (often unquestioned) models of communication in society that inform our own areas of research. Audience: Graduate 2. Critique influential works of social theory that have been widely adopted in the study of media and communication, as well as critical perspectives interrogating that work. Audience: Graduate 3. Explore what role(s) do media and communication play in the argument about how human societies are structured, how they change, how power is reproduced, what variables count in studying society. Audience: Graduate 4. Compare the conceptual tools theories offer for studying questions of interest to scholars of media and communication. Audience: Graduate 5. Critically evaluate how different theory's central ideas and assumptions impact research in our own respective subfields, whether political communication, journalism studies, disinformation studies, etc. Audience: Graduate