COURSE NUMBER: | PSYC 399 | ||||||||||||||||
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COURSE TITLE: | Special Topics in Communication Arts - 2014/15 Fall - Media Effects | ||||||||||||||||
NAME OF INSTRUCTOR: | Josh Noble | ||||||||||||||||
CREDIT WEIGHT AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: | credits 3(hrs lect 3 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 0) | ||||||||||||||||
COURSE DESCRIPTION: | A course on a topic of figure of special interest to a
member of the communication arts faculty and offered on a non-recurring
basis.
Prerequisites: PSYC 250 or 251 2014/15 Spring This course explores media as a ubiquitous, systemic feature of human relationship and society that in turn affect the users in a variety of manifest and latent ways. Working from this starting point, the course explores the various models of media effects, the various areas of effect, seeks to problematize pervasive media that characterizes communication in contemporary life, and questions the role in media in the development of culture and society historically. Same as CMNA 399 |
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REQUIRED TEXTS: | James Potter: Media Effects. SAGE, 2013. | ||||||||||||||||
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Required texts, assignments, and grade distributions
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from one offering of this course to the next. Please consult
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