NB: This is a preliminary schedule.
· Some screenings and readings listed here might be subjected to change
· The use of laptop computers and other electronic devices during class is NOT permitted.
Week 1 (1 – 3 Sept)
Course Overview and introduction.
Week 2 (8 – 10 Sept)
Media Technologies and Media content (ch. 2 & 4)
Week 3 (15 – 17 Sept)
Media Content and Media Industries (ch. 2 & 3)
Quiz
Week 4 (22 – 24 Sept)
Media Industries and Ideology (ch. 2 and 6)
Week 5 (29 Sept – 1 Oct)
Media Users (ch. 5).
Further readings:
Stuart Hall, “Encoding, Decoding”
Ien Ang, “The Nature of the Audience”
Stuart Hall, ‘The Rediscovery of “Ideology”: The Return of the “Repressed” in Media Studies’
Assignment Due 1/10
Week 6 (6 – 8 Oct)
The Construction of News (ch. 7)
Further readings:
Teun A. van Dijk, “Power and the News Media”
Week 7 (13 - 15 Oct)
Review and Mid Term Exam
Week 8 (20 – 22 Oct)
National Broadcasting and the Decline of the National Public (ch. 8 & 9)
Week 9 (27 – 29 Oct)
Media, Identity and Culture (ch. 10)
Screening: TBD
Jigna Desai, ‘Reel a State: Diaspora, Homeland, and. Nation-state in Srinivas Krishna's Masala’
Quiz
Week 10 (3 – 5 Nov)
Media, Identity and Culture (ch. 10 & 11)
Week 11 (10 – 12 Nov)
Media, gender and Sexuality (ch. 12)
Assignment Due 12/11
Week 12
Media, Identities and Communities (ch. 10-12)
Week 13
Media Saturation, Fluidity and Loss of Meaning (ch. 13)
quiz
Week 14
Wrap up and Review