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Class Detail:
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FA 2012
Communication Studies
COMM
371
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Media, Culture, and Society
Section
001
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Credits:
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4
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Requirements & Distribution:
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ULWR
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Consent:
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With permission of instructor.
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Enforced Prerequisites:
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COMM 101 or 102 with a grade of at least C-.
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Repeatability:
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May not be repeated for credit.
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Primary Instructor:
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Vaillant,Derek W
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(real time availability for all sections)
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This course explores the historical rise of mass media and the impact on modern society and culture. It considers the dynamic impact of radio and television broadcasting on the rise of urban industrial mass society and popular commercial culture through music, print and electronic advertising, consumerism, and emergence of affluent society. The course also studies modern media institutions, politics, and forms and processes of social change and identity formation, such as class, ethnicity, gender, race, and sexuality.
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Course Syllabi
Syllabi are available to current LSA students. IMPORTANT: These syllabi are provided to give students a general idea about the courses, as offered by LSA departments and programs in prior academic terms. The syllabi do not necessarily reflect the assignments, sequence of course materials, and/or course expectations that the faculty and departments/programs have for these same courses in the current and/or future terms.
Search for Syllabus
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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
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ISBN: 9780465090761
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Fables of abundance : a cultural history of advertising in America, Author: Lears, T. J. Jackson, 1947-, Publisher: Basic Books 1994
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Required
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ISBN: 0822339021
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Wallowing in sex : the new sexual culture of 1970s American television, Author: Levine, Elana, 1970-, Publisher: Duke University Press 2007
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Required
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ISBN: 9780520226692
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Latinos, Inc. : the marketing and making of a people, Author: Da?vila, Arlene M., 1965-, Publisher: University of California Press 2001
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Required
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ISBN: 9780691016580
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Black, white, and in color : television and Black civil rights, Author: Torres, Sasha., Publisher: Princeton University Press 2003
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Required
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ISBN: 9780226260129
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The conquest of cool : business culture, counterculture, and the rise of hip consumerism, Author: Frank, Thomas (Thomas C.), Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1998
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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