Summer 2010 - Session II

ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY IN ALL CLASSES AND SECTIONS IN THE FIRST WEEK OF THE QUARTER

8/2/2010 – 9/4/2010

GENERAL COMMUNICATION: LOWER DIVISION

COGN 20
Introduction to Communication (4) Reece Peck
Lecture: MW 11:00 – 1:50PM CSB 001
Section ID’s assigned by section:

A01 686270 Tu 2:00 – 3:50PM Peterson 102

A 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.

COMMUNICATION UPPER DIVISION

COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE

COCU 100
Introduction to Communication and Culture (4) Elana Zilberg
Lecture: MTuWTh 2:00 – 3:20PM CSB 001
Section ID

A01 686265 F 9:00 – 10:50AM PCYNH 122

Processes of communication shape and are shaped by the cultures within which they occur. This course emphasizes the ways in which cultural understandings are constructed and transmitted via the variety of communication media available to members. A wide range of cultural contexts is sampled, and the different ways that available communication technologies (language, writing, electronic media) influence the cultural organization of people’s lives are analyzed. Prerequisites: COGN 20.

COCU 125
How to Read a Film (4) Denise McKenna
Lecture: TuTh 11:00 – 1:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 686266
Description: The purpose of this course is to increase our awareness of the ways we commonly interpret or make understandings from movies and to enrich and increase the means by which one can enjoy and comprehend movies. We will talk about movies and we will explore a range of methods and approaches to film interpretation. >>>Readings will emphasize major and diverse theorists, including: Bazin, Eisenstein, Cavell, and Mulvey. Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing.

COCU 148
Communication and Environment (4) David Benin
Lecture: MW 5:00 – 7:50PM MCC 133
Section ID: 686267

Description: Survey of the communication practices found in environment controversies. The sociological aspects of environmental issues will provide background for the investigation of environmental disputes in particular contested areas, such as scientific institutions, communities, work-places, governments, popular culture, and the media. Prerequisite: COCU 100 and Upper Division Standing.

COCU 178
American Television in the 1970s (4) David Serlin
Lecture: TuTh 2:00 – 4:50PM PCYNH 121
Section ID: 686268
Description: Course will explore the politics and culture of the 1970s through the lens of network television programming and the decade’s most provocative sitcoms, dramas, variety shows, and news features. Students will analyze television episodes and read relevant media studies scholarship. Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing.

GENERAL COMMUNICATION

COGN 150
Required Senior Seminar (4) Ayhan Aytes
Title: Social Media
Lecture: TuTh 5:00 – 7:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 686271

Description: This seminar will address issues related to social networking, crowdsourcing, file sharing platforms, video-sharing sites, games and virtual environments in terms of their influence on the novel forms of social interactions and community practices.

COMMUNICATION AND HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING

COHI 100
Introduction to Communication and the Individual (4) James Perez
Lecture: TuTh 5:00 – 7:50PM Center 113
Section ID:

A01 686273 W 9:00 – 10:50AM Solis 104

Description: An introduction to theories of human mental processes which emphasizes the central role of mediation. The course covers methods of research that permit the study of mind in relation to different media and contexts of use. The traditional notion of media effects is critically examined in a number of important domains, including television, film, writing, and oral language. Prerequisite: COGN 20 or HDP 1.

COHI 125
Communication in Organizations (4) Kelli Moore
Lecture: MW 8:00 – 10:50AM MCC 201
Section ID: 686274

Description: Organizations are analyzed as historically-evolving discursive systems of activity mediated by talk, text, and artifacts. The class covers sense making, coordinating, symbolizing, talking, negotiating, reading and writing, story-telling, joking, and visualizing in organizations. Exemplary case studies, employing several complementary theoretical frameworks, are used to analyze these communicative processes. Prerequisite: COHI 100.

COHI 175
Advanced Topics in Communication (4) Naomi Young
Title: Critical Analysis of “Cultural Difference” in the Mass Media
Lecture: TuTh 8:00 - 10:50AM Center 201
Section ID: 686275

Description: This course will take a critical analysis on representations of social and cultural difference presented in the media. In this course students will explore mass mediated images, and consumption of media-constructed difference in terms of identity, ethnicity, class, gender, race, age and sub-culture. Specifically, this course will examine how culture, as a system of human design, is presented as art, entertainment and social learning, through various media forms, which include print, television, art, film, and cyber-space. Prerequisite: Upper-Division Standing.

COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA METHODS

COMT 122
Social Issues Media Production (4) Lauren Berliner
Lecture: TuTh 2:00 – 4:50PM MCC 133
Section 687506

Description: Analyze forms of social issue media production, photography, audio/radio, arts, crafts, Web, print zines, political documentary. Students work with several forms of media making: video, audio, Web design, and a project in their chosen format. Prerequisites: COGN 21 and COGN 22.

COMMUNICATION AS A SOCIAL FORCE

COSF 132
History of U.S. Political Communication (4) Antonieta Mercado
Lecture: MW 2:00 – 4:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 686276

Description: 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. Prerequisites: COSF 100, communication major.

COSF 175
Advanced Topics in Communication as a Social Force (4) Jonathan Markovitz
Title: Film and Social Struggle
Lecture: MW 6:00 – 8:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 686277

Description: This course examines the relationship between film, social movements, and the state. Why have social movements seen film as worthy of attention? Why have they decided to target some films while mobilizing in support of others? What role has the state played in such efforts? The course will pay particular attention to social movement responses to the racialized depictions of gender and sexuality that have been central to Hollywood film from its inception, as exemplified in such films as The Birth of a Nation. Topics to be addressed include the importance of film for the anti-lynching movement, the blacklist and the “Hollywood Ten,” and Turkish efforts to suppress cinematic acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide. Pr