TVR 30.5: Media Criticism (Television and Radio Criticism)

Class Schedule and Assignments - Summer, 2005

Monday-Thursday
1:45PM-3:30PM
Whitehead 518

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

 

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