COMM 391

Spring 2006 All Classes

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Special Topics

Credit: 1 TO 3 hours.

Presents special projects, research, and independent reading in communications for students capable of individual work under the guidance of a faculty advisor.

May be repeated in the same or in multiple semesters, if topics vary. Prerequisite: Registration in the College of Communications or consent of college.

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COMM 391 class schedule data for spring 2006
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10548	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/06-05/03/06 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
44219	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	385 Education Building	Valdivia, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/06-05/03/06 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Latinas in Television, Film and Popular Culture - Until fairly recently, scholars have almost completely ignored Latinos/as in films and television, and in popular culture in general. This course situates the media and their relation to multicultural representation, reception, and consumption within concrete historical and material contexts. The urgency of studying Latinas and the media is not only for Latinas to have access to interpellation possibilities with media texts, but also for a particular set of voices to be included in the contestation over culture, a set of voices that will enrich our understanding of ourselves and others.
31431	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:20PM	MW	221 Gregory Hall	McCarthy, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/06-05/03/06 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Cultural Studies - Cultural Studies offers students a comprehensive introduction and overview of cultural studies and mass communications theories as well as research approaches to the analysis of contemporary media. The course will both call attention to and examine the implications of the extraordinary ability of television, film, popular magazines, popular music, and commercial advertising to produce, generate and circulate pleasures and meanings about contemporary youth, their needs, interests, desires and constraints. In addition to the investigation of these topics, most classroom sessions will also include screenings of segments from popular film, television programs and commercial advertisements for visual analysis in the classroom. This course is also offered on MW, 1-2:20.
41100	Conference	PR	3:30PM -5:00PM	TR	G18 Foreign Languages Building	Riismandel, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/06-05/03/06 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: COMM 391--Understanding and Producing New Media Provides students both a theoretical and practical understanding of new media. Students study the history and foundations of digital audio and video, network technologies and the Internet in order to develop a better understanding of the limits and possibilities of new media. These concepts are applied in hands-on demonstrations and assignments in producing new media, such as streaming audio and video on the web, CDs and DVDs. No prior production experience is expected or required. Note: This course is restricted to Media Studies majors only. Restriction(s): Restricted to Media Studies major(s).
43651	Lecture-Discussion	Q	1:00PM -2:20PM	MW	243 Armory	McCarthy, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/06-05/03/06 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Cultural Studies - Cultural Studies offers students a comprehensive introduction and overview of cultural studies and mass communications theories as well as research approaches to the analysis of contemporary media. The course will both call attention to and examine the implications of the extraordinary ability of television, film, popular magazines, popular music, and commercial advertising to produce, generate and circulate pleasures and meanings about contemporary youth, their needs, interests, desires and constraints. In addition to the investigation of these topics, most classroom sessions will also include screenings of segments from popular film, television programs and commercial advertisements for visual analysis in the classroom. This course is also offered on MW, 11-12:20.
31429	Lecture-Discussion	R	10:00AM -11:20AM	TR	169 Davenport Hall	Caban, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/06-05/03/06 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Race and Empire - Race and Empire begins by discussing westward expansion, manifest destiny, and social darwinism as constitutive of continental territorial empire building. (The Northwest Ordinance was a seminal legal construct that permitted Congress to deploy the Constitution in the service of empire.) From there we move to a discussion of how discourses of racial superiority were indispensable to substantiate the imperative for overseas territorial expansion. As the course progresses, we will see how the logic of contemporary empire still rests heavily on the presumption of the technocratic, administrative superiority of Western institutions and their universal applicability.