MS 408

Spring 2011 All Classes

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Cultural Analysis of Media

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Study of theories and methods for analyzing the cultural significance and influence of the content of film and television media; detailed application to one or two particular dimensions of the relationship of screen media to culture (applications vary from term to term and are chosen to highlight current issues in cultural analysis of media). Students are required to view a limited number of films and television programs outside of class.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours.

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MS 408 class schedule data for spring 2011
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	55501	Lecture-Discussion	1G	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	147 Armory	Hay, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: This semester, we will focus on: Television Studies: From Broadcast to YouTube and examine various factors that are reshaping TV including shifts in television genres, "new media" technologies (e.g., YouTube), gaming, television's relation to surveillance, and television in everyday life. Examine various dimensions of TV in the present, with some attention to earlier forms and practices of television. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	54612	Lecture-Discussion	1U	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	147 Armory	Hay, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This semester, we will focus on: Television Studies: From Broadcast to YouTube and examine various factors that are reshaping TV including shifts in television genres, "new media" technologies (e.g., YouTube), gaming, television's relation to surveillance, and television in everyday life. Examine various dimensions of TV in the present, with some attention to earlier forms and practices of television. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.