Overview
Description
Learn the historical context of today’s media landscape and the dynamic relationships between media institutions and political, cultural, socioeconomic, and technological change. Consider how worldview is influenced by media.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- integrate and synthesize core knowledge to analyze the complex ways media shape—and are shaped by—our understanding of history.
- demonstrate a knowledge of scientific and technological advancements in media and mass communication and their impact on historical and modern societies.
- differentiate among and integrate information from primary and secondary sources in order to evaluate them as sources of evidence for media history.
- demonstrate the ability to effectively design and produce professional level multimedia communication dealing with an original research question related to the history of journalism and/or strategic communication.
- demonstrate a deeper understanding of media history by selecting and writing a review and critique of a book-length work of media history scholarship relevant to their scholarly interests.