TVR 30.5 Schedule and Assignments

Semester Syllabus / Discussion Notes / Class Moodle

#	Class/Date	Subject	Assignments
1	Sept 1	Introduction	No Reading.
	Sept 8	No Class. Classes that end after 4pm have been cancelled today.
2	Sept15	The Landscape of Media Criticism; Exploring and Explaining Media	Read http://davis.foulger.info/research/unifiedModelOfCommunication.htm and http://evolutionarymedia.com/papers/hammerAsMedium.htm
3	Sept 22	Doing Media Criticism Semiotics	Read Allen, Chapter One; Bring body of content to class
4	Sept 29	Semiotics (continued) Narrative Theory	Read Allen, Chapter 2
5	Oct 6	Narrative Theory (continuted) Writing Media Criticism	TBD; First Annotated Bibliography Due.
6	Oct 13	Genre Theory Auteur Theory and Production-Oriented Approaches	Read Allen, Chapter 4; Read Medium as an Ecology of Genre (web reading); Short Paper 1 Due
7	Oct 20	Audience-Oriented Criticism	Read Allen, Chapter 3
8	Oct 27	Ideological Analysis	Read Allen Chapters 5; Optionally Read Allen, Chapter 7
9	Nov 3	Cultural Studies; Theories of Mind	Read Allen, Chapters 6 and 8; Short Paper 2 Due
10	Nov 10	The Postmodern Turn; Deconstruction of Media Content	Read Allen, Chapter 9; Term Paper Introduction Due; Web Readings. See Online Syllabus for links.; Second Annotated Bibliography
11	Nov 17	Probing Media Theory	Web Reading TBD
12	Nov 24	Term Paper Presentations
13	Dec 1	Term Paper Presentations	No Reading
14	Dec 8	The Rearview Mirror; Thinking Systematically About Media	Read Allen, Afterword. Web Reading TBD. Final Submission of Term Paper for Grading
15	Dec 15	Final	(Presumed Date) Good luck.