TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Please refer to Moodle for updates on the schedule
Week One
Introductions & Syllabus + Intro: Media, Culture and Society
L: The Communication Process
R: (H) Media Culture and Society: Read Ch. 1 (pp.1-12) & (K) pp.1-16
Communication Process & History of Communication Studies ppt
Week Two
L: Media Technologies
R (H): Media Culture and Society: Ch. 2 (pp.17-35) & Raymond Williams’s “The Technology and The Society “(photocopies will be provided)
McLuhan (video) up to min 8:40
R (K): Revolutions in Communication, Part I, Ch.1 (pp.17-66 )
Week Three
Oral presentations begin
L: The Birth of Media Industries
R (K): Revolutions in Communication, Part I, Ch.2
R (K): Ch. 3
Week Four
Oral presentations
L: Media Industries & Economic Determinism + Visual Revolution
R: (H) Chapter.3 (pp.37-54) + (K) Part II (Ch. 4) + Part II (Ch. 5)
Week Five
Oral presentations
W: Citizen Kane by Orson Wells (watch on your own)
Review + class discussion of Citizen Kane
Week Six
Oral presentations
L: Media Content: Basics of Linguistics & Semiotics + Audience Studies
R: (H) Chapter 4 & Chapter 5
S: Representation and the Media by Stuart Hall (excerpts)
Week Seven
Midterm Review & Midterm Exam
Week Eight
Oral Presentations
L: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Crafted Image
R: (K) Part II, Chapter 6 (selected parts)
S: Representations and the Media by Stuart Hall (excerpts)
Week Nine
Oral Presentations; L: The Electronic Revolution: Telegraph/Telephone, Radio R: (K) Part III, Ch.7 & 8
Week Ten
L: Political Economy: Media Industries and Ideology
R: (H) Ch.6
L: The Construction of News & Television: a New Window on the World R: (H) Ch. 7 & (K) Ch. 9
Week Eleven
Oral Presentations
L: Public Service or Personal entertainment? Controlling Media Orientation + The Digital Revolution-Computers
R: (H) Ch. 8 & (K) Ch.10 (selected parts)
Week Twelve
Oral presentations
L: Media Community and Difference
R: (H) Ch. 11
L: Media, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, & Sexuality
R: (H) Ch.12
S: Latinos Beyond Reels (excerpts)
Week Thirteen
Oral presentations
L: Media, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, & Sexuality (cont.)
R: (H) Ch. 13
Week Fourteen
Oral Presentations
L: Global Culture & The Age of Simulacra
R: (K) Ch. 12 & (H) Ch. 14
Final Examinations