TVR 30.5: Media Criticism (Television and Radio Criticism)Class Schedule and Assignments - Summer, 2005Monday-Thursday
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Semester Syllabus / Lecture Notes
# | Day | Date | Month | Subject Matter | Assignments |
1 | Mon | 06 | June | Introductions | No Reading |
2 | Tue | 07 | June | The Landscape of Media Criticism | Read http://davis.foulger.info/research/unifiedModelOfCommunication.htm and http://evolutionarymedia.com/papers/hammerAsMedium.htm |
3 | Wed | 08 | June | Exploring and Explaining Media | Read Levinson, Chapters 1, 2, 3; Allen, Introduction |
4 | Thu | 09 | June | Semiotics | Read Allen, Chapter 1 |
Mon | 13 | June | No Class | ||
Tue | 14 | June | |||
5 | Wed | 15 | June | Semiotics II | Read http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html and the pages it points to directly; Bring a copy of your body of content to class (a CD, DVD, audio tape or VCR tape) |
6 | Thu | 16 | June | Writing Media Criticism | Read Levinson, Chapters 4, 5, 6; Body of Content Annotated Bibliography Due |
7 | Mon | 20 | June | Narrative Theory | Read Allen, Chapter 2; Short Paper 1 Due |
8 | Tue | 21 | June | Narrative Theory II | Read http://lamar.colostate.edu/~pwryan/mediaentry.htm and http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/journal/vol4/saakes/index.html |
9 | Wed | 22 | June | Audience-Oriented Criticism | Read Allen, Chapter 3 |
10 | Thu | 23 | June | Audience-Oriented Criticism | Read Allen, Chapter 4 |
11 | Mon | 27 | June | Theories of Mind/Genre Theory | Allen, Chapter 6; Short Paper 2 is due |
12 | Tue | 28 | June | Genre Theory | |
13 | Wed | 29 | June | Production-Oriented Approaches | Read Levinson, Chapters 7-10 |
14 | Thu | 30 | June | Medium as Message | Read Levinson, Chapters 11, 12, 13 |
Mon | 04 | July | No class | ||
15 | Tue | 05 | July | Ideological Analysis | Read Allen, Chapter 5 (Chapter 7 is an optional reading) |
16 | Wed | 06 | July | Cultural Studies | Read Allen, Chapter 8; Term Paper Introduction Due |
17 | Thu | 07 | July | Posmodernism and Deconstruction | Read Allen, Chapter 9; Methodological Annotated Bibliography Due |
18 | Mon | 11 | July | The Rearview Mirror | Read Levinson, Chapters 14 and 15; First Draft of Term Paper Due |
19 | Tue | 12 | July | Term Paper Presentations | |
20 | Wed | 13 | July | Thinking Systematically About Media | Read Allen, Afterword; Final Submission of Term Paper for Grading |
Thu | 14 | July | No Class. | First Day of Finals. | |
21 | Mon | 18 | July | Final Exam (DV) | Good Luck; Term Papers will be returned |
OptionalRegion