Section Info: FMT-104-01

Course Title: Introduction to Media Studies
Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025
Term: Spring Semester 2025
Description: This course introduces students to the critical study of media, focusing on electronic media, digital technologies, and network cultures. We will analyze the aesthetics, politics, protocols, history, and theory of media, paying attention to the ways they create and erase borders; affect how we form and articulate identities; invade privacy while providing a platform for exploration; foster hate speech and progressive movements alike; and participate in capitalist economies and the acceleration of climate change. While tracing the global flows of media creation, distribution, and consumption, we will also consider the different issues that arise in diverse national and local contexts.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Hannah Goodwin             hgoodwin@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025   Lecture   Tuesday and Thursday   01:45PM - 03:00PM   TBA   TBA   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
None                    

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
NXMAP0001   NXMAP: Nexus in Museums, Archives, and Public History   This course is approved for the Museums, Archives, and Public History Nexus track.  
NXJRN0001   NXJRN: Nexus in Journalism, Media, and Public Discourse   This course is approved for the Journalism, Media, & Public Discourse Nexus track.  
CST0001   CSTH: Critical Social Thought major   This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor.  
CST0001   CSTH: Critical Social Thought minor   This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor.  

Cross-listed Sections        
None  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 28     Enrollment: 22     Available: 0     Waitlist: 5
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.