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COMM 575
Cult Studies and Crit Interp
Credit: 4 hours.
(COMM 475) Explores the history, applications and limitations of various theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of contemporary culture and popular media. Examines debates and issues within cultural studies and with other schools of thought. The impact of cultural studies across the disciplines. Same as EPS 575. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Section Information
| CRN | Type | Section | Time | Days | Location | Instructor |
| 31462 | lecture- discussion | G | 11:00 AM - 12:50 PM | MW | room 136
Armory | McCarthy, C |
Instructor Approval Required
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***New Course in Cultural Studies for Undergraduate Seniors*** COMM 391/575 To all undergraduate students, especially seniors majoring in communications, the humanities, the social sciences, education, the fine arts or law, the ICR/Media Studies program is offering a great opportunity to be mentored in the study and analysis of contemporary culture. COMM 391/575 is a new, exciting course seminar in cultural studies that will pair undergraduates with graduate students from many disciplines and departments across campus. Undergraduate will have the opportunity to sit in on course lectures, to participate with graduate students in vigorous discussion on the topics raised in class and in the course readings, and to have intensive one-on-one talking sessions with the course instructor, Professor Cameron McCarthy. Besides, undergraduate students will meet together separately with the course instructor for their own weekly tutorial session that will address their questions about the course topics and broader issues of popular culture as they arise in contemporary advertising, television, film, newspapers, and popular music. COMM 391/575 will offer undergraduate students a comprehensive introduction and overview of cultural studies and mass communications theories and 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 discussion of these research traditions, most classroom sessions will also include screenings of segments from popular film, television programs and commercial advertisements for visual analysis in the classroom.
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