Session

Winter 2025

 Term

W

Format

LECT

Instructor

Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite

This course provides an introduction to understanding, interpreting, and applying key theoretical approaches in communication and media theory. Special attention will be paid to mass communication theory, cultural theory, medium theory, feminist theory, semiotics, critical theories of technology, critical race theory, and the political economy of media. Course credit exclusion: AP/COMN 3320 6.00 (prior to Fall 2012), AP/COMN 3100 3.00.This course was previously offered as AP/COMN 2100 3.00

Course Start Up

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