MASS COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Define and compare major theories of culture, ideology, and hegemony within media and communication scholarship. Audience: Graduate 2. Analyze how digital and global media reshape power relations, cultural practices, and systems of meaning. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply political economy frameworks to evaluate media industries and technological change. Audience: Graduate 4. Critically examine how media represent and reinforce or challenge constructions of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and nationality. Audience: Graduate 5. Interpret how audiences, users, and participants negotiate identity and power through digital media. Audience: Graduate 6. Evaluate the relationship between media practices and social movements, activism, and public participation. Audience: Graduate 7. Synthesize scholarly research to develop an original, theoretically grounded analysis of culture and media in the digital age. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Define and compare major theories of culture, ideology, and hegemony within media and communication scholarship. Audience: Graduate 2. Analyze how digital and global media reshape power relations, cultural practices, and systems of meaning. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply political economy frameworks to evaluate media industries and technological change. Audience: Graduate 4. Critically examine how media represent and reinforce or challenge constructions of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and nationality. Audience: Graduate 5. Interpret how audiences, users, and participants negotiate identity and power through digital media. Audience: Graduate 6. Evaluate the relationship between media practices and social movements, activism, and public participation. Audience: Graduate 7. Synthesize scholarly research to develop an original, theoretically grounded analysis of culture and media in the digital age. Audience: Graduate