[Plsugs] FW: [UPAC] COMM 309 open to all students in Spring 2013

[Tanya Quist]

If appropriate, please notify your students who may be interested in taking
an upper-division Communication class:  all prerequisites for COMM 309 in
the spring semester will be removed starting with open registration on
Monday, November 12.

 

COMM  309 - 001   Introduction to Mass Media Effects

TuTh  9:30 - 10:45

CESL Bldg, Room 102

3 units

 

This course examines the role of the mass media in the evolution of society
and as they impact individuals and groups. It follows an analysis of the
process, content, and effects of mass media. Topics covered include news,
advertising, and entertainment media content; violent, sexual, and political
content and effect; media technologies; cultivation; diffusion of
innovations; media events; etc. The course focuses on some major questions,
including: 

 

(1) What is the role of the media in bringing about shifts and changes in
people and social institutions? 

(2) How do individuals and groups, as media consumers, respond to the
content to which they are exposed in the media? and 

(3) What are some explanations for how media effects on individuals and
society occur?

 

 

Questions may be directed to Nancy Kelly, 626-8240.

 

 

 

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Debbie Marlow

Academic Advisor

Department of Communication

The University of Arizona

Communication Building, Room 115

P.O.Box 210025

Tucson, AZ 85721

Fax:  520.621.5504

 

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