Media Studies II

The second half of the media studies sequence shifts from describing media forms to interrogating them through critical theory, asking how audiences, industries, technologies, and surveillance systems actually shape (and are shaped by) the culture they circulate in. You'll work through readings on communication theory, write essay-based midterm and final responses, and build toward a term research project that you present at the end of the semester. It's the conceptual backbone for upper-year COMD work: once you can argue about ownership structures, spectatorship, and mediated environments rather than just identify them, the production and industry courses that follow have something to push against.