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Fall 2017  |  CSCL 3177 Section 001: On Television (15200)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 110
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gill+CSCL3177+Fall2016
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Exam Format:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15200/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2015

Fall 2017  |  CSCL 3177 Section 002: On Television (16801)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 345
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gill+CSCL3177+Fall2016
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Exam Format:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16801/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2015

Spring 2017  |  CSCL 3177 Section 001: On Television (50530)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 110
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Exam Format:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50530/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2015

Spring 2017  |  CSCL 3177 Section 002: On Television (52054)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 110
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Exam Format:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52054/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2015

Fall 2016  |  CSCL 3177 Section 001: On Television (15429)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 110
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gill+CSCL3177+Fall2016
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Exam Format:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15429/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2015

Fall 2016  |  CSCL 3177 Section 002: On Television (17268)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Wed 02:30PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 325
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gill+CSCL3177+Fall2016
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Exam Format:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17268/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2015

Spring 2016  |  CSCL 3177 Section 001: On Television (51301)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 110
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gill+CSCL3177+Spring2016
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Exam Format:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51301/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2015

Spring 2016  |  CSCL 3177 Section 002: On Television (58112)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gill+CSCL3177+Spring2016
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Exam Format:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58112/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2015

Fall 2015  |  CSCL 3177 Section 001: On Television (15728)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 35
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gill+CSCL3177+Fall2015
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Exam Format:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15728/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2015

Fall 2015  |  CSCL 3177 Section 002: On Television (23083)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Science Teaching Student Svcs 121
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?bradb+CSCL3177+Fall2015
Class Description:
What is television? Is it the physical device, the manner of its distribution, or what gets broadcast? In this course we will be examining television's place in American culture (and its history) by investigating a variety of ways that television has been talked about in public, professional, and academic arenas. Our approach to this question will be guided by a variety of texts including but not limited to political theory/philosophy (what does television "do to us"), history (how did our idea of television come to be), and individual episodes of a number of television shows. As much as television has a place in American culture, it also has an important history of shaping the culture it comes out of and this course will be a space wherein we take seriously the role of television in the development of the present age.
Class Format:
30% Lecture
30% Film/Video
40% Discussion
Workload:
30-50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23083/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 March 2015

Spring 2015  |  CSCL 3177 Section 001: On Television (51466)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 335
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
This course is designed to be a critical look at an often-unexamined medium, television. We will approach TV as an industry, a medium or mode of culture, a sometimes-maligned object of discourse, and a site of textual, social, and political practices. Our guiding principle will be that TV matters. And we will ask not just what ideas it produces, but, importantly, how it produces them and how those practices have changed over time. Starting in the postwar period, we will trace the emergence of television culture, mostly within the United States, and think about how this particular media institution shaped, and was shaped by, its social and historical context. Specifically, this portion will focus on how the television was constructed as a domestic appliance and was used as an instrument for producing and policing the ideal or normative family. Then, the course will follow the development of both popular, corporate programming and alternatives practices, like cable access, guerrilla TV, and public television, to the present day. We will also examine the unspoken assumptions about class, gender, race, and sexuality that sit behind the way that both academics and mainstream commentators talk about TV as the quintessential medium of mass culture, or the ?idiot box.? Engaging theoretical and analytical readings, this course will use class discussion, lecture, and written assignments to explore these critical frameworks. Additionally, we will screen and dissect episodes of individual programs, running the gamut from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Roseanne to Parks and Recreation.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51466/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
8 November 2013

Spring 2015  |  CSCL 3177 Section 002: On Television (59317)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Burton Hall 120
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Grading:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59317/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
29 November 2012

Spring 2015  |  CSCL 3177 Section 003: On Television (59956)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Mon 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Grading:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59956/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
29 November 2012

Spring 2015  |  CSCL 3177 Section 004: On Television (69118)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
That the impact of television on our daily life, political views, and social habits is stronger than ever before is perhaps unarguably correct. Television, consumer society, and the culture of commercialism, as Benjamin would argue replaced the real world by representations of the real. Sustained with the rapid reproduction and replication of auditory and visual images, embedded messages, and manipulative advertising strategies, these simulations serve to validate ideas about culture, behavior, gender, race, class, and social interaction, while promoting commercial values. Hence, the purpose of this course is to use a variety of critical approaches to study mass media and address analytical questions such as: who owns the media? Who are the architects behind certain programs? What are their intentions? Has television been transformed into an elitist instrument of hegemony? And how does it manage to shape consciously or subconsciously our beliefs, attitudes, and understanding of abstract concepts such as beauty. Answers to these questions will help us understand how the role of television developed over time. Through the study of different formats of production, theories of spectatorship, and the alliance between television and the state we uncover certain how propagandist ideas are transmitted to legitimize discipline, obedience, and conformity and place them among the highest values in society. Readings: 50-100 pages Assignments: 3 Essays, 1 presentation, a final 8-page paper
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69118/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 January 2009

Fall 2014  |  CSCL 3177 Section 001: On Television (16076)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 35
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
While early developers and promoters saw TV's democratic and commercial potential, critics were quick to denounce its impractical demands on attention, decrying TV's lack of cultural value compared to art, literature, theater, or even more established mass media like film and radio. While its birth was greeted with varying degrees of skepticism, it has over time survived--and even thrived--despite recent repeated pronouncements of its death. Television--then as now--competes with, contributes to, and depends upon a vast array of media technologies and innovation, industrial and fan practices, programming formats and content. It is neither a simple, discrete object nor a monolithic institution, an instrumental form of social control nor an inconsequential entertainment. In this class, we will engage the complexity of television as a transforming--and transformative--cultural force, one with which we all interact on multiple levels and with varying degrees of collective influence and personal investment. Together, we will critically examine: * trends in television technologies, aesthetics, broadcast standards, and audience expectations * the history of television's cultural texts, as well as their socio-political and economic contexts * the evolution and adaptation of television genres, formats, marketing strategies, and fan bases * the impact of television on various cultural institutions and ideologies, and vice versa. As we explore the growing academic fields of television and media studies--drawing upon many theoretical tools and insights developed in film and cultural studies--we will consider several questions, including: * How has TV affected our understanding of concepts like "public" and "private" over time? * What role does TV technology play in the development of local, national and global communities? * Does representation of cultural diversity on TV contribute to greater social equality off screen? * To what extent is "reality" mediated by TV production techniques and (con)textual manipulation? * Are viewers merely passive consumers of TV products or active participants in TV culture? Also, together we will analyze our own constantly changing roles in relation to television and media culture more broadly--as viewers, producers, fans, critics, and, of course, as scholars.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16076/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
27 July 2014

Fall 2014  |  CSCL 3177 Section 002: On Television (24805)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 12
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Grading:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/24805/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
29 November 2012

Fall 2014  |  CSCL 3177 Section 003: On Television (25859)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 120
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
Television is a pervasive and hybrid cultural form, marking a convergence of technologies, institutions, audiences, and ideas. It has reorganized domestic and public space; challenged traditional concepts of "high" culture and "low" culture; nurtured ideas of global villages and simultaneity; ushered spectacle, advertising and standardized programs into our living rooms and supplied resonant metaphors for understanding the experience of contemporary life: boob tube, sound bite, talking head, tune-in/drop out, instant replay, prime time and pet-cam. In short, television has played a crucial role in transforming perception, inviting us to rethink fundamental concepts such as time, space, text, image, sound, and aesthetics. This course begins with the assumption that television is a complex phenomenon with neither a unitary significance nor a simple effect. We will explore key debates in the history, theory and criticism of television, concentrating on developing skills to facilitate critical and creative "readings" of television's past and present forms. This will include consideration of how television has borrowed from and influenced other media forms - especially film, music, and digital media.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/25859/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 September 2007

Fall 2014  |  CSCL 3177 Section 004: On Television (35962)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Murphy Hall 214
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
That the impact of television on our daily life, political views, and social habits is stronger than ever before is perhaps unarguably correct. Television, consumer society, and the culture of commercialism, as Benjamin would argue replaced the real world by representations of the real. Sustained with the rapid reproduction and replication of auditory and visual images, embedded messages, and manipulative advertising strategies, these simulations serve to validate ideas about culture, behavior, gender, race, class, and social interaction, while promoting commercial values. Hence, the purpose of this course is to use a variety of critical approaches to study mass media and address analytical questions such as: who owns the media? Who are the architects behind certain programs? What are their intentions? Has television been transformed into an elitist instrument of hegemony? And how does it manage to shape consciously or subconsciously our beliefs, attitudes, and understanding of abstract concepts such as beauty. Answers to these questions will help us understand how the role of television developed over time. Through the study of different formats of production, theories of spectatorship, and the alliance between television and the state we uncover certain how propagandist ideas are transmitted to legitimize discipline, obedience, and conformity and place them among the highest values in society. Readings: 50-100 pages Assignments: 3 Essays, 1 presentation, a final 8-page paper
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35962/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 January 2009

Spring 2014  |  CSCL 3177 Section 001: On Television (56402)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
This course is designed to be a critical look at an often-unexamined medium, television. We will approach TV as an industry, a medium or mode of culture, a sometimes-maligned object of discourse, and a site of textual, social, and political practices. Our guiding principle will be that TV matters. And we will ask not just what ideas it produces, but, importantly, how it produces them and how those practices have changed over time. Starting in the postwar period, we will trace the emergence of television culture, mostly within the United States, and think about how this particular media institution shaped, and was shaped by, its social and historical context. Specifically, this portion will focus on how the television was constructed as a domestic appliance and was used as an instrument for producing and policing the ideal or normative family. Then, the course will follow the development of both popular, corporate programming and alternatives practices, like cable access, guerrilla TV, and public television, to the present day. We will also examine the unspoken assumptions about class, gender, race, and sexuality that sit behind the way that both academics and mainstream commentators talk about TV as the quintessential medium of mass culture, or the ?idiot box.? Engaging theoretical and analytical readings, this course will use class discussion, lecture, and written assignments to explore these critical frameworks. Additionally, we will screen and dissect episodes of individual programs, running the gamut from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Roseanne to Parks and Recreation.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56402/1143
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
8 November 2013

Spring 2014  |  CSCL 3177 Section 002: On Television (65452)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Grading:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65452/1143
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
29 November 2012

Spring 2014  |  CSCL 3177 Section 003: On Television (66825)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014
Mon 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
That the impact of television on our daily life, political views, and social habits is stronger than ever before is perhaps unarguably correct. Television, consumer society, and the culture of commercialism, as Benjamin would argue replaced the real world by representations of the real. Sustained with the rapid reproduction and replication of auditory and visual images, embedded messages, and manipulative advertising strategies, these simulations serve to validate ideas about culture, behavior, gender, race, class, and social interaction, while promoting commercial values. Hence, the purpose of this course is to use a variety of critical approaches to study mass media and address analytical questions such as: who owns the media? Who are the architects behind certain programs? What are their intentions? Has television been transformed into an elitist instrument of hegemony? And how does it manage to shape consciously or subconsciously our beliefs, attitudes, and understanding of abstract concepts such as beauty. Answers to these questions will help us understand how the role of television developed over time. Through the study of different formats of production, theories of spectatorship, and the alliance between television and the state we uncover certain how propagandist ideas are transmitted to legitimize discipline, obedience, and conformity and place them among the highest values in society. Readings: 50-100 pages Assignments: 3 Essays, 1 presentation, a final 8-page paper
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66825/1143
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 January 2009

Fall 2013  |  CSCL 3177 Section 001: On Television (21975)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Grading:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21975/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
29 November 2012

Fall 2013  |  CSCL 3177 Section 002: On Television (32114)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 108
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
That the impact of television on our daily life, political views, and social habits is stronger than ever before is perhaps unarguably correct. Television, consumer society, and the culture of commercialism, as Benjamin would argue replaced the real world by representations of the real. Sustained with the rapid reproduction and replication of auditory and visual images, embedded messages, and manipulative advertising strategies, these simulations serve to validate ideas about culture, behavior, gender, race, class, and social interaction, while promoting commercial values. Hence, the purpose of this course is to use a variety of critical approaches to study mass media and address analytical questions such as: who owns the media? Who are the architects behind certain programs? What are their intentions? Has television been transformed into an elitist instrument of hegemony? And how does it manage to shape consciously or subconsciously our beliefs, attitudes, and understanding of abstract concepts such as beauty. Answers to these questions will help us understand how the role of television developed over time. Through the study of different formats of production, theories of spectatorship, and the alliance between television and the state we uncover certain how propagandist ideas are transmitted to legitimize discipline, obedience, and conformity and place them among the highest values in society. Readings: 50-100 pages Assignments: 3 Essays, 1 presentation, a final 8-page paper
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32114/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 January 2009

Fall 2013  |  CSCL 3177 Section 003: On Television (34011)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Mon 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
Television is a pervasive and hybrid cultural form, marking a convergence of technologies, institutions, audiences, and ideas. It has reorganized domestic and public space; challenged traditional concepts of "high" culture and "low" culture; nurtured ideas of global villages and simultaneity; ushered spectacle, advertising and standardized programs into our living rooms and supplied resonant metaphors for understanding the experience of contemporary life: boob tube, sound bite, talking head, tune-in/drop out, instant replay, prime time and pet-cam. In short, television has played a crucial role in transforming perception, inviting us to rethink fundamental concepts such as time, space, text, image, sound, and aesthetics. This course begins with the assumption that television is a complex phenomenon with neither a unitary significance nor a simple effect. We will explore key debates in the history, theory and criticism of television, concentrating on developing skills to facilitate critical and creative "readings" of television's past and present forms. This will include consideration of how television has borrowed from and influenced other media forms - especially film, music, and digital media.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34011/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 September 2007

Spring 2013  |  CSCL 3177 Section 001: On Television (51599)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue 06:30PM - 09:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 35
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
It was the German theoretician Theodor Adorno who argued that the manner in which members of advanced industrial societies spent their "free time" had in fact nothing to do with relaxation and was only a way to keep the working citizen in a regular routine. Watching TV at night after a long days' work had no enjoyment in it. The TV-viewer did not 'collect' any food for thought or discussion. It was a bland, brainless activity that gave the worker the illusion of not having worked while in actuality being a mere extension of work. TV, with its own specific routine prepared the viewer for the routine of the coming day. These are the kinds of -- still widely believed -- reservations a course dealing with a critical examination of the current world of TV and TV criticism will have to face. Some of the examined questions will be: What is entertainment? What makes the private watching of TV in our living rooms TV different from other forms of entertainment? Is TV a useful escape from the world or is it a dangerous threat to the world? Or, is TV, as a key element of reality, filled with contradiction and struggle? TV mediates relationships, whether it is on the inter-personal level, between races, classes, or in our relationship to technology. It is constantly changing. It is the largest export of the USA. And, as many have argued, it is one of the most important nation-building factors in the USA. TV has made the private public in a way no other medium heretofore ever has. These are just a few of the reasons to build a critical vocabulary and develop a watchful eye towards something that takes up significant sections of the day for many of us.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51599/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
28 August 2009

Spring 2013  |  CSCL 3177 Section 002: On Television (67686)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 116
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
That the impact of television on our daily life, political views, and social habits is stronger than ever before is perhaps unarguably correct. Television, consumer society, and the culture of commercialism, as Benjamin would argue replaced the real world by representations of the real. Sustained with the rapid reproduction and replication of auditory and visual images, embedded messages, and manipulative advertising strategies, these simulations serve to validate ideas about culture, behavior, gender, race, class, and social interaction, while promoting commercial values. Hence, the purpose of this course is to use a variety of critical approaches to study mass media and address analytical questions such as: who owns the media? Who are the architects behind certain programs? What are their intentions? Has television been transformed into an elitist instrument of hegemony? And how does it manage to shape consciously or subconsciously our beliefs, attitudes, and understanding of abstract concepts such as beauty. Answers to these questions will help us understand how the role of television developed over time. Through the study of different formats of production, theories of spectatorship, and the alliance between television and the state we uncover certain how propagandist ideas are transmitted to legitimize discipline, obedience, and conformity and place them among the highest values in society. Readings: 50-100 pages Assignments: 3 Essays, 1 presentation, a final 8-page paper
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67686/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 January 2009

Spring 2013  |  CSCL 3177 Section 003: On Television (68604)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 115
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
It was the German theoretician Theodor Adorno who argued that the manner in which members of advanced industrial societies spent their "free time" had in fact nothing to do with relaxation and was only a way to keep the working citizen in a regular routine. Watching TV at night after a long days' work had no enjoyment in it. The TV-viewer did not 'collect' any food for thought or discussion. It was a bland, brainless activity that gave the worker the illusion of not having worked while in actuality being a mere extension of work. TV, with its own specific routine prepared the viewer for the routine of the coming day. These are the kinds of -- still widely believed -- reservations a course dealing with a critical examination of the current world of TV and TV criticism will have to face. Some of the examined questions will be: What is entertainment? What makes the private watching of TV in our living rooms TV different from other forms of entertainment? Is TV a useful escape from the world or is it a dangerous threat to the world? Or, is TV, as a key element of reality, filled with contradiction and struggle? TV mediates relationships, whether it is on the inter-personal level, between races, classes, or in our relationship to technology. It is constantly changing. It is the largest export of the USA. And, as many have argued, it is one of the most important nation-building factors in the USA. TV has made the private public in a way no other medium heretofore ever has. These are just a few of the reasons to build a critical vocabulary and develop a watchful eye towards something that takes up significant sections of the day for many of us.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68604/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
28 August 2009

Spring 2013  |  CSCL 3177 Section 004: On Television (68605)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 115
Course Catalog Description:
Key debates in the history, theory, and criticism of television. Focuses on critical/creative "readings" of television's past/present forms. TV's influence on film, music, and digital media.
Class Description:
This course examines television as a technology that should be neither completely dismissed (i.e., "Everything on TV is stupid") nor uncritically embraced. Television has a complex history that has served to both unite social groups and atomize and anesthetize individuals. Accordingly, we will approach television as a complex cultural institution that not only entertains, but also largely determines the stories we tell ourselves. We will study writings on television and specific TV shows from a variety of angles to understand the rise of American broadcast technologies, how race and class are crafted on TV, representations of gender and the home, postmodernity, the demise of taste, what constitutes ?reality? in our present historical moment, and changes in the televisual technologies.
Grading:
15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
12 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68605/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
29 November 2012

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