2023-2024 Traditional Undergraduate Catalog

COM 302 Media: Conveyor of Cultural Ideas

This course is an examination of media as tools to convey cultural ideas (including religious ideas, philosophical ideas, worldviews, persuasive messages, and culture itself). A cultural lens for both consumers and producers of media to evaluate mass media on behalf of church and society will be developed. The student will investigate how the mass media both reflect and shape cultural ideas. Students will apply critical skills to learn how to analyze all forms of media communication. Prerequisite: COM 202 or permission of instructor. (This course is cross-listed as HUM 302.) 3 credits.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

( COM202 )