| Course ID: | EMST 3010. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Media Entertainment and Popular Culture |
Course
Description: | Introduction to contemporary entertainment media from a media
studies and media literacy perspective. The historical, economic,
social, cultural, legal, and ideological contexts of contemporary
entertainment media, with an emphasis on television, film, gaming,
and other emergent media. |
| Oasis Title: | Med Entertain and Pop Culture |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in EMST 3010H |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | (a) The course will provide students with a critical language to
interrogate contemporary entertainment media, especially issues
of visual media texts and storytelling.
(b) Students will learn about issues of textual form, economic
contexts, historical antecedents, cultural/ideological
discourses for understanding contemporary entertainment media.
(c) Students will be provided a theoretical language drawn from
the field of media studies and media literacy, which will
inform subsequent coursework in the Entertainment and Media
Studies Department. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. The industrial, economic, political, legal, and regulatory
contexts of media
2. Entertainment media production, practice, and work
3. Historical elements of industry technology, content, and/or
culture
4. Audience practices and media consumption
5. Socio-cultural contexts and influence of entertainment media |