Prerequisites: upper division standing or consent from instructor

Description: Examines the interconnections of media technologies, modes of audience engagement, and the political and economic contexts of audience formation. Focuses on production sites and distribu- tion and consumption of media. Explores how theoret- ical frameworks converge in the examination of con- nections between cultural texts and social contexts and between media and society. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.