COMM 304 Literary, Visual, and Media Theory

Students will read and comprehend literature, visual culture, and media communication through various critical frameworks that theorize about these cultural artifacts including New Criticism, the Toronto School, The Frankfurt School, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Feminist and Gender Studies, Ethnic and Race Studies, Post Colonialism, Psychoanalytic Studies, and New Historicism. Students will apply these theories to literature, film, television, and media productions in order to understand how such critical approaches enhance and challenge the understanding of those.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

ENGL 304

Prerequisite

COMM 101 or COMM 201

Notes

Upper Division Writing Intensive Course