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An historical introduction to the development of the means of human communication, from language and early symbols through the introduction of writing, printing, and electronic media, to today’s digital and multimedia revolution. Examines the effect of communications media on human activity, and the historical forces that shape their development and use. Offered fall and spring quarters.
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This course explores fundamental technical and social constraints shaping media production. We read film and television as texts by considering history, theory, genre and practical technique. COGN 22 and COGN 21 taken concurrently strongly recommended. COGN 22 is required for students interested in advanced communication production in media courses. Majors must enroll for a letter grade.
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In groups in lab students work hands-on with video and new media equipment, exploring fundamental technical constraints shaping media production. COGN 21 and COGN 22 strongly recommended concurrently. COGN 22 is required for students interested in advanced communication production courses. Majors must enroll for a letter grade.
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The Freshman Seminar Program is designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments and undergraduate colleges, and topics vary from quarter to quarter. Enrollment is limited to fifteen to twenty students, with preference given to entering freshmen.
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A critical overview of areas of macro communication and analysis, with special emphasis on the development of communication institutions, including broadcasting, common carriers, and information industries. Questions regarding power, ideology, and the public interest are addressed.
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Emergence of dissent in different societies, and the relationship of dissent to movements of protest and social change. Movements studied include media concentration, antiwar, antiglobalization, death penalty, national liberation, and labor. Survey of dissenting voices from Tolstoy and Naomi Klein seeking to explain the relationship of ideas to collective action and its outcomes.
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This course examines the challenges that arise in using feminist theory to understand black women’s experience in Africa and the United States. It also looks at the mass media and popular culture as arenas of black feminist struggle.
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Analysis of the forces propelling the âInformation Age.â An examination of the differential benefits and costs, and a discussion of the presentation in the general media of the âInformation Age.â
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The political economy of the emergent Internet industry, charted through analysis of its hardware, software, and services components. The course specifies leading trends and changing institutional outcomes by relating the Internet industry to the adjoining media, telecommunications, and computer industries.
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We examine how people interact with products of popular culture, production of cultural goods by looking at conditions in cultural industries. We examine film, music, publishing, focusing on how production is organized, what kind of working conditions arise, how products are distributed.
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Television is a contested site for negotiating the rationales of inclusion and exclusion associated with citizenship and national belonging. Historical and contemporary case studies within international comparative contexts consider regulation, civil rights, cultural difference, social movements, new technologies, and globalization.
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This course considers the social, cultural, economic, and technological contexts that have shaped electronic media, from the emergence of radio and television to their convergence through the internet, and how these pervasive forms of audiovisual culture have impacted American society.
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Survey of the history of political communication in the United States from the colonial period to the present. Students will work on term papers in which they will undertake original historical research.
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Focuses on science fiction’s critical investigation of history, identity, and society across a range of media forms, including film, television, and literature.
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(Formerly COCU 134.) Selected topics, both historical and contemporary, on the public sphere, political participation, and the meaning of citizenship. Topics may include: voting practices, the role of political parties, social and cultural dimensions of citizenship, and shifts in public understanding of what counts as âpolitical.â The course may require five to ten hours of internship work, arranged through the AIP office. See instructor for further information.
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The secularization thesisâthat as society becomes more modern and standards of living rise, the importance of religion will diminish and be confined to the private sphereâmay be wrong. We address religion, communication, culture, and politics in the United States.
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The development of media systems in Asia: focusing on India and China. Debates over nationalism, regionalism, globalization, new technologies, identity politics, censorship, privatization and media piracy. Alignments and differences with North American and European media systems will also be considered.
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The development of media systems and policies in Europe. Differences between European and American journalism. Debates over the commercialization of television. The role of media in post-communist societies in Eastern Europe.
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The development of media systems and policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Debates over dependency and cultural imperialism. The news media and the process of democratization. Development of the regional television industry.
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Students will exercise advanced foreign language skills to discuss materials and the correspondingly numbered communication language foreign area course. This section is taught by the course instructor, has no final exam, and does not affect the grade in the core course, COSF 140C.
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This course provides a sustained historical focus on the developing social form and industry structure of U.S. telecommunications, beginning with the Post Office. Policy issues are regularly incorporated into readings and discussions. Emphasis is placed on the emergence, around the turn of the century, of the regulated, national telephone network system dominated by AT&T and its extension.
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This course explores the social, cultural, legal, and political-economic dimensions of the Internet from the 1960s to the present. Students also are introduced to theories and methods developed in communications and related fields for studying online media and their uses.
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This course, a research seminar, examines the evolution of the so-called new information economy and analyzes the transformation of patterns of work and industrial organization. Students will be expected to write a research paper, typically on some aspect of the new economy in the San Diego-Tijuana region.
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This course critically examines social and economic forces that shape the making of this new global consumer culture by following the flows of consumption and production between the âdeveloped’ and âdeveloping’ worlds in the 1990s. We will consider how consumers, workers, and citizens participate in a new globalized consumer culture that challenges older distinctions between the âFirst’ and the âThird World.’ In this course, we will focus on the flows between the U.S., Asia, Latin America.
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Examine the interplay of globalization as a discourse and set of practices focusing on free movement of commodities and ideas, nationalist fragmentation marked by ethnic rivalry and identity conflict, seeks to examine those places where dualism is most pronounced.
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