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2200U Syllabus

This course introduces students to major scholars and traditions of communication theory from the postwar period to present. Possible topics include advertising, subcultures, media representations of identity, information technologies, public sphere, globalization, and security/surveillance. By engaging diverse authors and readings, students will learn to critically apply ideas to understand today's complex world. Course objectives are for students to distinguish perspectives of authors, understand strengths/weaknesses, and directions of contemporary work. Students will develop presentation, research, writing and critical thinking skills. The course aims to show how communication theory can help understand how society and individuals' places within it are constituted.

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2200U Syllabus

This course introduces students to major scholars and traditions of communication theory from the postwar period to present. Possible topics include advertising, subcultures, media representations of identity, information technologies, public sphere, globalization, and security/surveillance. By engaging diverse authors and readings, students will learn to critically apply ideas to understand today's complex world. Course objectives are for students to distinguish perspectives of authors, understand strengths/weaknesses, and directions of contemporary work. Students will develop presentation, research, writing and critical thinking skills. The course aims to show how communication theory can help understand how society and individuals' places within it are constituted.

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This course will introduce students to some of the different major scholars and traditions of communication theory, as the

discipline has developed from the postwar period to the present. Possible topics to be considered include advertising and consumerism; subcultures and other oppositional movements; stereotypical representations of race, gender, and sexuality in the media; the possibilities and limitations of information communication technologies; the public sphere, citizenship, and modern democracy; globalization, national culture, and identity; security, surveillance, and privacy. Engaging with these diverse authors and readings, we will learn to critically employ their ideas, concepts and vocabularies in order to make sense of our own increasingly complex world. COURSE OBJECTIVES Students will become familiar with a range of classical and post-classical theories of communication; by the courses completion, they should be capable of distinguishing between the different perspectives of each author or school, enumerating their fundamental strengths and insights and identifying some of their local weaknesses, errors and limitations. Students should also gain a sense of the basic concerns and questions that have preoccupied theorists of communication, past and present, as well as of some of the directions in which the recent work of contemporary thinkers has been pointing. Students will also have opportunities to hone their presentation, research, reading and writing skills, and to develop their capacities for critical thinking and argument. More generally, we will see the distinctive value of communication theory as an approach to understanding society: extending it to our own lives, we will interrogate our underlying assumptions about how the social world, and our places within it, are constituted. ORGANIZING DISSENT, CONTESTING HEGEMONY: RESISTANCE CULTURES
READINGS:

Dick Hebdige, (i) From Culture to Hegemony; (ii) Subculture; (iii) The Unnatural Break (KW, PP. 144-162)

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