CMST& 102 — Introduction to Mass Media
EDP, H- In this course, students become better consumers of information through an understanding of the media's history and cultural, economic, and social impacts. Students will learn how the internet, television, radio, film, and print media affect private and public life. They will be able to analyze the news and information flowing around them critically. Students will explore the legal, ethical, economic, and commercial dimensions of mass communications including how local and global systems of power, privilege, and inequality are created and maintained. (formerly 203)