| Course ID: | EMST 4330/6330. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Media Theory |
Course
Description: | An overview of how people have thought and talked about media
production and consumption, through critical and cultural
frameworks. Special emphasis is placed on how theory informs and
understands media content and creative practices. |
| Oasis Title: | Media Theory |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in EMST 3410 |
| Undergraduate Prerequisite: | EMST 3320 and permission of department |
| Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This course in media theory is designed to provide students with
a vocabulary and an array of lenses to analyze and discuss media
texts, their audiences, and influence. Students will read and
apply theories to media case studies. By the end of the course
students will develop individual understandings of how theory
informs their creative practices. |
| Topical Outline: | Mass Society Theories
Media Effects and Propaganda
Critical Theory
Structuralism/Post-Structuralism
Cultural Studies
Theories of Race and Representation
Feminist Theory
Queer Theory |