Media and Their Audiences

Media and Their Audiences
Understanding media content and channels empowering and improving media consumption and interpretation. Approaches may include new technology, social media, consumer behavior, media criticism, and media literacy.
COMMS
351
 Hours3.0 Credit, 3.0 Lecture, 0.0 Lab
 PrerequisitesMajor or minor status.
 TaughtContact Department
 ProgramsContaining COMMS 351
Course Outcomes

Media Message Delivery

Students will think critically to have an understanding of the conditions that influence and shape media distribution channels.

Theoretical Grounding

Students will understand relevant communication theory to explain various problems of media and their audiences.

Media Message Consumption

Students will think critically to have an understanding of technological, economic, or cultural conditions that influence the consumption and interpretation of media messages.

Diversity

Students will think critically about the portrayal of minority voices in domestic and global contexts.