TVR 30.5: Media Criticism (Television and Radio Criticism)Class Schedule and Assignments - Fall, 2004Monday/Wednesday - 3:30PM-4:45PM |
Semester Syllabus / Lecture Notes
Session | Date | Subject | Assignment (to be completed before class on the date assigned) |
NC | September 4 | Labor Day Break | |
1 | Wednesday, September 6 | Introduction | No Reading. Note that this class is on Wednesday. |
2 | September 11 | The Landscape of Media Criticism; Exploring and Explaining Media | Read Levinson, Chapters 1, 2, 3; Read http://davis.foulger.info/research/unifiedModelOfCommunication.htm and http://evolutionarymedia.com/papers/hammerAsMedium.htm |
3 | September 18 | Read Allen, Introduction, Chapter One; Bring body of content to class | |
4 | September 25 | Semiotics (continued); Narrative Theory | Read Allen, Chapter 2 |
NC | Yom Kippur Break | ||
5 | Tuesday, October 3 | Read Levinson, Chapters 4, 5, 6, First Annotated Bibliography Due; Note that this class is on Tuesday. | |
NC | October 9 | Columbus Day Break | |
6 | October 16 | Genre
Theory; |
Read Allen, Chapter 4; Medium as an Ecology of Genre (web reading); Levinson, Chapters 7 and 8; Short Paper 1 Due |
7 | October 23 | Read Levinson, Chapters 9 and 10; Read Allen, Chapter 3 | |
8 | October 30 | Read Allen Chapters 5; Optionally Read Allen, Chapter 7 | |
9 | November 6 | Read Allen, Chapters 6 and 8; Short Paper 2 Due | |
10 | November 13 | Read Allen, Chapter 9; Term Paper Introduction Due; Web Readings. See Online Syllabus for links.; Second Annotated Bibliography | |
11 | November 20 | Exam | First Complete Draft of Term Paper Due; Exam |
12 | November 27 | Uses of Media; Term Paper Presentations |
Read Levinson, Chapters 11, 12, 13; No Reading |
13 | December 4 | Term Paper Presentations | No Reading |
14 | December 11 | Read Allen, Afterword. Read Levinson, Chapters 14 and 15. Final Submission of Term Paper for Grading | |
Final | December 18 | Optional Final Exam | Monday from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Term papers and, to the extent it is possible to do so, final grades will be returned at this time. |