Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Summer Quarter 2008
• Autumn Quarter 2008

Taso Lagos
POL S 306
Seattle Campus

Media, Society and Political Identity I&S

Explores how society and culture are both represented in and shaped by communication technologies and media content. Media include film, advertising, news, entertainment television, talk shows, and the Internet. Explores how media represent and affect individual identity, values, and political engagement. Offered: jointly with COM 306.

Class description

Description. Explores how society and culture are both represented in and shaped by communication technologies and media content. Media include film, advertising, news, entertainment television, talk shows, and the Internet. Explores how media represent and affect individual identity, values, and political engagement.

Student learning goals

General method of instruction

Recommended preparation

Text. Enchiridion by Epictetus; Modernity and Self-Identity by Anthony Giddens; PR by Stuart Ewen; Breaking Up America by Scott Turow; The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida.

Class assignments and grading

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