Communication and Culture Undergraduate Program
The communication and culture major is designed to engage students in focused inquiry into the cultural foundations of communication in its various forms. As a liberal-arts major, the program of study emphasizes the development of a conceptual framework for understanding the role of communication in both transmitting and creating culture through practices of verbal and nonverbal communication. Through an interdisciplinary approach involving faculty from different fields of expertise in the humanities and social sciences, students study media, discourse and global influences and developments in communication. The curriculum covers historical and current topics, and the range of communicative forms considered includes visual and graphic images, everyday discourse, literary works, journalistic writing, music and material productions. Although not a production-oriented or preprofessional major, students have opportunities for practicum and internship learning. The faculty is committed to providing the type of sound critical and conceptual grasp of communication that is essential for intelligent participation and leadership in the various fields of communication.
For details regarding the major, students should consult the Majors’ Handbook, which is available online, in the Communication and Culture Program Office, and at the Academic Advising Center.
The major is organized into three paths of emphasis: (1) media dimensions, (2) discourse dimensions and (3) global dimensions, which includes courses in both media and discourse studies that emphasize some aspect of global communication. With the exception of the introductory course (COMM101), most courses are cross-referenced with the departments in which they originate.
Courses
(Click on "Title of Course" or "Course Number" to sort by that category)
| Title of Course | Course Number |
Actor as Thinker/Studio, Lecture, Discussion
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TA212 |
Advanced Topics in Cultural Psychology/Capstone Seminar
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COMM276 |
American Consumer Culture/Seminar
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COMM211 |
American Sign Language I
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COMM110 |
American Sign Language II
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COMM111 |
American Talk/First-Year Seminar
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ENG114 |
Architecture and Democracy/Seminar
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ARTH216 |
Audio Culture
|
MUSC200 |
Capstone Course
|
COMM291 |
Capstone Course
|
COMM296 |
Communication Ethics
|
COMM220 |
Communication and Culture
|
COMM101 |
Communication and Culture in Main South/First-Year Seminar
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COMM050 |
Computer Mediated Communication
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COMM170 |
Computers In Our World/Lecture, Laboratory
|
COMM099 |
Contemporary British Literature and Culture
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COMM273 |
Cool/First-Year Seminar
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COMM040 |
Critical Perspectives on Television
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SCRN261 |
Cultural Discourses of Advertising/Seminar
|
COMM252 |
Cultural Psychology of Urban Living/ Lecture, Discussion
|
PSYC157 |
Cultural Psychology/Lecture, Discussion
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COMM156 |
Culture and the News/Lecture, Discussion
|
ENG205 |
Culture, Consumption and Class in Local and Global Contexts/Lecture, Discussion
|
COMM275 |
Culture, Place and the Environment/ Lecture
|
GEOG017 |
Design in the 20th Century: Arts & Crafts to Ikea/Lecture, Discussion
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ARTH243 |
Discourse and Cultural Studies/Field Research
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COMM150 |
Discourse, Self and Feeling/First-Year Seminar
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PSYC193 |
Effects of Mass Media [Formerly Soc 273]
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COMM136 |
Ethnic America: Literary and Theoretical Perspectives/Seminar
|
COMM272 |
Experimental Video Production
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COMM145 |
Factual Film and Televison
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SCRN123 |
Feature Writing/Workshop
|
ENG202 |
Fictions of Asian America/Seminar
|
AS279 |
Film as Narration
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SCRN284 |
Foundations of Screen Studies
|
COMM103 |
Francophone Literature and Film
|
FREN140 |
From the Stone Age to Our Age: Monuments and Masterpieces of Western Art/Lecture, Discussion
|
ARTH010 |
Futuring the News/Seminar
|
COMM259 |
Gender and Discourse/Seminar
|
COMM295 |
Gender and Environment/Lecture, Discussion
|
GEOG136 |
Gender and Film
|
SCRN288 |
German Film and the Frankfurt School
|
COMM249 |
Global Communication and the Spaces of Cultural Production
|
COMM246 |
Global Cultures and Identities/Lecture, Discussion
|
SOC160 |
Global Ethnographies: Ethnographers in the Making for the 21st Century/Seminar
|
SOC294 |
Global Television
|
COMM264 |
Graphic Design Projects/Studio, Lecture, Discussion
|
ARTS125 |
Graphic Design Studio
|
ARTS254 |
History of American Broadcasting and Electronic Media
|
SCRN122 |
History of International Cinema Since 1960
|
COMM126 |
History of the English Language/ Seminar
|
ENG294 |
Image Theory
|
COMM168 |
Images of Youth
|
SCRN230 |
Immigration in France/Lecture, Discussion
|
COMM166 |
Intermediate Photography/Studio, Lecture, Discussion
|
ARTS121 |
Internet Geography: Socioeconomic Impacts of Information Technologies/Lecture, Discussion
|
GEOG257 |
Introduction to Interactive Design
|
ARTS209 |
Language Development/First Seminar
|
PSYC251 |
Language and Culture in the United States/Lecture, Discussion
|
COMM215 |
Language at Issue/Seminar
|
ENG257 |
Latin-American Art/Lecture, Discussion
|
ARTH159 |
Latino Literature and Media Arts
|
SPAN134 |
Meaning, Politics and Difference: Sociology of Culture/Lecture, Discussion
|
SOC231 |
Media Policy and Democracy
|
COMM221 |
Media Workshop in French
|
FREN127 |
Music and Modernism in Society, 1885-1945/ Lecture, Discussion
|
MUSC104 |
Music, Media & Public Spheres
|
COMM201 |
Philosophy of Language/Lecture, Discussion
|
PHIL242 |
Photography Studio
|
ARTS250 |
Pop Music in the USA/Lecture, Discussion
|
MUSC012 |
Popular Culture in France
|
COMM124 |
Recording Practice and Audio Art/Seminar
|
COMM146 |
Roots and Routes: Immigrants, Diasporas and Travel/Lecture, Discussion
|
ID261 |
Science Fiction Film: City of the Future
|
COMM219 |
Seminar in Music History and Criticism
|
MUSC210 |
Signs and Crossroads: Semiotic Theory and Practice/Seminar
|
COMM248 |
Social Problems: Claims Making, Media and Construction
|
COMM213 |
Social and Cultural Issue Documentary Production
|
SCRN214 |
Soundtracks/Lecture
|
MUSC160 |
Special Topics: Renaissance and Baroque Art/Seminar
|
COMM239 |
Strategic Speaking/Workshop
|
COMM196 |
Studies In French Cinema
|
COMM263 |
Studies in Contemporary French Culture
|
FREN137 |
Studies in Hispanic Culture/Lecture, Discussion
|
SPAN133 |
The Creation of Nationalism, Nationalist Cultures and Symbols/Lecture, Discussion
|
SOC255 |
The National Imagination
|
CMLT130 |
The Total Work of Art and Cultural Criticism from Wagner to the Present/Seminar
|
GERM205 |
Theoretical Models of Communication in Psychology/First Seminar
|
PSYC247 |
Transformative Schooling: Documentary Video for Social Change/First-Year Seminar
|
EDUC112 |
Typography
|
ARTS208 |
Urban Art and Society in Jazz Age New York/Seminar
|
ARTH245 |
World Cinema and Global Culture
|
COMM224 |
Writing for Magazines/Seminar
|
COMM204 |
