COM 201 - Media & Society

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirement SL.
Meets Explore Core requirement (students beginning Fall 2024 and later): HS
Examines influences of media on participatory democracy and its cultural forms and the history, production, representation, and consumption of media in society. Introduces students to the relationship between media and social justice and to social scientific approaches to the study of media as texts and industries, including the logic of inquiry, standards of evidence, and grounds for making claims about communication behaviors. Topics may include social media, images and effects, corporate media culture, organizational structures of journalism, the Internet and digital media environments, audience identification and interpretation of media.