2013-2014 Course Catalog - PDF Format - Flagler College

Courses of Instruction 199
COM 334 – Gender, Race, Class, and the Media (3)
Prerequisite: COM 208. This course is an introductory survey of Gender
Communication. It closely examines the mass media and the historical,
Communications. It presents a number of intriguing legal, ethical, and
cultural issues regarding the media in the world today and in the past. This is
an important course in how sex and gender have been and are used in today’s
media and society for entertainment, economic, and social purposes.
COMMUNICATION
COM 335 - Television and Contemporary Society (3)
This course explores American life through an
analysis of our central medium: television. While it will span many eras, the main
focus will be on what is considered the modern “Golden Era” of television drama.
television’s role within American society, the formal attributes of a variety of
television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation,
television’s role in everyday life, and the medium’s technological and cultural
impacts. We will consider not only why TV is what it is today, but how it might
be different. Through the exploration of critical perspectives on television, the
course will prepare you for further studies in media criticism as well as enable
you to be a more savvy and sophisticated consumer (and potentially producer)
of television in your future endeavors.
COM 336 – Stereotypes and Mass Media (3)
Prerequisite: COM 208.
to the serious – and the world around them. Through certain representations
of “reality,” the media cultivate particular norms and values over others. This
course focuses on the theoretical debates surrounding mass media and popular
culture. Some of the principal themes of the course are media production and
of the course is to provide an understanding of the interactions of mass media
and popular culture and to provide some critical tools for analyzing them.
COM 337 - National Film Movements (3)
(equivalent to COM 340)
This class will function as an introduction to the
art of international cinema today, including its forms and varied content. This
made in different countries, with a strong emphasis on the key productions