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FILM 114 Introduction to Media Studies: Arts and Practices Units: 3.00
This course offers an introduction to media studies by focusing on the ways that cultures make use of media. The course focuses on the nature of mediated communication, the roles of media, and the critical approaches we can mobilize to understand media arts and practices through a comparative survey of global media practice and networks of production, circulation, and consumption.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 60 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media and approaches to global media studies.
- Analyze specific uses of media technologies in global contexts.
- Develop academic and creative skills to engage, research, and write on topics in the field pertaining to media arts and practices.
- Deploy the formal tools, terms, critical terms and definitions of media studies in the analysis of contemporary global media practices.