COM-302 Media Criticism

GER: VP (Visual and Performing Arts) and WR (Writing/Research Intensive)
Prerequisite: Any one of the following: COM-102, COM-202, or FST-202
Critical methods used to analyze the mass media and popular cultural texts. The theoretical basis of such critical methods as semiotics, psychoanalysis, narrative and ideological theory, and cultural studies, and how to use these methods to analyze media texts such as television shows, movies, and magazine advertisements. 4 credits.