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FILM 113 Introduction to Media Studies: Cultures and Technologies Units: 3.00
This course offers an introduction to media studies by focusing on the impacts of new technologies on global cultures throughout history. The course focuses on the nature of mediated communication, the role of media, and the critical approaches we can mobilize to understand its forms and functions. The course examines various media through lenses such as political discourse and the rise of globalization.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 60 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media and critical and historical approaches to global media studies.
- Summarize development of media studies theory and concepts and their contextual specificity.
- Develop academic and creative skills to engage, research, and write on topics in the field of media history.
- Deploy the formal tools, terms, critical terms and definitions of media studies in the analysis of local and global media technologies.