Traces the Internet’s history, reception, audience, industries, rhetorics, fictional and filmic narratives, and potential as a purveyor and transmitter of culture and values.
Spring 2020
COM ARTS 347
Introduction to the changing images of race and ethnicity in U.S. entertainment media and popular culture. Surveys history, key concepts and contemporary debates regarding mediated representation of ethnic minorities. Critical and cultural studies approaches are …
COM ARTS 345
Examines how personal relationships unfold in online communication contexts (social network sites, online dating, video games). Topics include impression formation and management, deception and trust, self-perception and identity, social support and relationship maintenance.
COM ARTS 325
Investigate the ways in which individuals use, create, and respond to media content in the context of increasingly blurred boundaries between “mass” and “interpersonal” media. We will consider social scientific theories and research on a …
COM ARTS 317
Investigate how the concept of health is rhetorically constructed and deployed in a number of different contexts. Explore how language and argument shape our understanding of health, how health is positioned in opposition to illness …
COM ARTS 313 Topics in Film and Media Studies
Students explore a topic in film and media studies, history, and theory; the topic varies from semester to semester.
COM ARTS 310 Topics in Rhetoric and Communication Science
Students explore a topic in rhetoric or communication science; the topic varies from semester to semester.
COM ARTS 300
An exploration of the comedy genre, examining theories of humor in film; introducing conceptual tools for critical appreciation and analysis; and investigating different subgenres and tendencies prominent in various phases and traditions of popular film …
COM ARTS 299
Graded on a lettered basis.
COM ARTS 298
Graded on a Cr/N basis.