The media have become core social institutions in the dissemination of information, news, entertainment, culture, politics, social interpretation, and other spheres of everyday life. In recent years, mass communication has taken on new electronic formats and has expanded worldwide to bring more and more people and places in contact with one another, shrinking our sense of time and space. The Media Studies cluster serves to unify a common subject under different disciplinary and intellectual approaches, looking at both applied and interpretive aspects of image creation and symbolic exchange within and across cultural and territorial boundaries.
Cluster Coordinator: Gerald Sussman
Office: UPA 370K
Phone: 503-725-5176
E-mail: sussmang@pdx.edu
Introduction to Media Studies examines the social significance of media content, media institutions, and social changes deriving from uses of communication in different social, political, and cultural contexts. Critical approaches to this course include the study of: 1) systems of representation and their constitution; 2) structural characteristics of mass production and distribution of media products; and 3) the social impacts of mass media through changing technological forms.
This SINQ leads to the Media Studies Cluster.
BST 424U African-American/African Culture in Cinema
BST 427U African-American Films and Film Makers
COMM 312U Media Literacy
COMM 399U Screenwriting
COMM 399U Film Studies I: Introduction to Film
COMM 399U Film Studies II: International Film History
COMM 399U Film Studies III: Documentary and A.G. Film
COMM 412U Empirical Theories of Mass Communication
COMM 420U Political Communication
COMM 422U Critical Theories of Mass Communication
COMM 427U Issues in International Communication
COMM 452U Gender and Race in the Media
HST 497U Film and History
MKTG 340U Advertising
MUS 399U Modern Music Technology
PS 318U Media, Opinion and Voting
USP 457U Information Cities
WR 416U Screenwriting
WS 452U Gender and Race in the Media
