Dr. Foulger Adjunct Professor (Fall, 2004) |
COM 300: Media CriticismClass Schedule and Assignments - Fall, 2004Tuesday/Thursday - 1:40pm-2:55pm and 3:05pm-4:20pm |
Semester Syllabus / Lecture Notes
Session | Date | Subject | Assignment |
9 | September 30 | Genre Theory | Read Allen, Chapter 4 |
No class on October 5. | |||
10 | October 7 | Writing Media Criticism | Read Levinson, Chapters 4, 5, 6 |
11 | October 12 | Ideological Analysis | Read Allen Chapter 5; Short Paper 1 Due |
12 | October 14 | Ideological Analysis (continued) | Optionally Read Allen, Chapter 7 |
13 | October 19 | Audience-Oriented Criticism | Read Allen, Chapter 3 |
14 | October 21 | Production-Oriented Approaches | Read Levinson, Chapters 7 and 8 |
15 | October 26 | Medium as Message | Read Levinson, Chapters 9 and 10 |
16 | October 28 | Cultural Studies | Read Allen, Chapter 8 |
17 | November 2 | Theories of Mind | Read Allen, Chapter 6; Short Paper 2 Due |
18 | November 4 | Postmodern Approaches | Read Allen, Chapter 9 |
19 | November 9 | Election Postmortem | No reading; Term Paper Introduction Due |
20 | November 11 | No Class. Attending National Communication Association | Term Paper Working Day |
21 | November 16 | Exam | Good Luck; Second Annotated Bibliography |
22 | November 18 | Uses of Media | Read Levinson, Chapters 11, 12, 13; Term Paper Due |
23 | November 23 | Body of Content Presentations | No Reading |
No class on November 25. | |||
24 | November 30 | Body of Content Presentations | No Reading |
25 | December 2 | Body of Content Presentations | No Reading |
26 | December 7 | Body of Content Presentations | No Reading |
27 | December 9 | The Rearview Mirror | Read Levinson, Chapters 14 and 15; Optional Resubmission of Term Paper |
No class on December 14. | |||
28 | December 16 | Thinking Systematically About Media | Read Allen, Afterword |
29 | December 23 | Final Exam Party. | 1:40pm class meets from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. 3:05 class meets from 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm. Term papers and, to the extent it is possible to do so, final grades will be returned at this time. |
Completed
Sessions | |||
1 | August 31 | Introduction | No Reading |
2 | September 2 | The Landscape of Media Criticism | Read http://davis.foulger.info/research/unifiedModelOfCommunication.htm and http://evolutionarymedia.com/papers/hammerAsMedium.htm |
3 | September 7 | Exploring and Explaining Media | Read Levinson, Chapters 1, 2, 3 |
4 | September 9 | Doing Media Criticism | Read Allen, Introduction |
5 | September 14 | Semiotics | Read Allen, Chapter One; Bring body of content to class |
No class on September 16. | |||
6 | September 21 | Semiotics (continued) | No additional reading |
7 | September 23 | Narrative Theory | Read Allen, Chapter 2, First Annotated Bibliography Due |
8 | September 28 | Narrative Theory (continuted) | No additional reading |