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COMM 3110 is also offered in Fall 2024
COMM 3110 is also offered in Spring 2024
COMM 3110 is also offered in Fall 2023
COMM 3110 is also offered in Spring 2023
COMM 3110 is also offered in Fall 2022
COMM 3110 is also offered in Spring 2022
COMM 3110 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2024 | COMM 3110 Section 001: Topics in Communication Studies -- Media and Cultural Memory (68138)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 15 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
- Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 35 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Cases illustrating communication studies, theory, underlying issues.
- Class Notes:
- This course examines the relationship between media and cultural memory in the digitalized era. We study how memory institutions such as museums and archives use different types of media to engage with the past and to reach out to publics. We also learn how artists, activists, and other civil society actors intervene in cultural memory politics. Social media and new technologies contribute to the transformation of how public memory is created and by whom. Participatory culture and mediated circulation shape cultural memory in significant ways. Students will learn key concepts and literature on cultural memory from media and communication studies perspectives. We will apply theoretical ideas to examine the meanings of objects, artifacts, iconic images, art, vernacular and official memorials, rituals, and exhibitions. The course is founded on sociology of temporality: The present, one day, will be the past, and awareness of this often shapes people's action. Also, the past haunts the present and shapes how events and people are treated in the present social life. While the course addresses theories of cultural memory more broadly, empirical cases focus on social justice issues and marginalized groups such as migrants. Public memory recognizes the social importance of those who are remembered or memorialized. During the course students will explore migration museums in the Twin Cities and vernacular sites such as the George Floyd memorial to examine how cultural memory is being made through mediation.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68138/1243
Spring 2024 | COMM 3110 Section 002: Topics in Communication Studies -- Rhetoric of Renewed Great Power Competition (68167)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 15 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall B15
- Enrollment Status:
Open (17 of 24 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Cases illustrating communication studies, theory, underlying issues.
- Class Notes:
- The confrontation between the United States and Russia over Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the marked increase in trade and security friction between the United States and China have led many commentators to declare that the world is entering a new era of Great Power competition. This course deploys debate and argumentation theory to analyze both how different interest groups and proponents of various schools of international relations theory construct and defend arguments about the nature of the emerging international order and how the foreign policy of the United States should adjust to this order. Students will both critically analyze critical texts in this emerging controversy and debate and discuss the merits of these arguments.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68167/1243
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