COMM 100
Intro to Popular TV & Movies

Credit: 3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Literature and the Arts course.

The goal of this course is for students to begin to develop a critical understanding of the role of popular movies and television in their own lives and in U.S. culture. We look at issues of the relationship of media to social violence, gender identities, sexual identities, adolescents, minority cultures, and the role of the U.S. media globally. We also consider some of the major media genres that characterize U.S. popular television and movies.