Spring 2025  |  GLOS 3605 Section 001: Word, Image, Technology: Media as History and Culture (65119)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025
UMTC, West Bank
Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 5 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This is a course about the history of the relationship between media and culture. We will read historians, anthropologists, and other scholars who study different forms of mediated human communication today, and we will examine some of the key moments in the growth of humanity's powers of communication. Students will acquire a vocabulary with which to think about the history of media. We will go on several field trips to encounter actual technologies, such as medieval codexes and radio apparatuses from the 1920s, and students will do an inventory of their own media use and compare that to those of families or friends. Our key question will be about the role media has played - and continues to play - in the constitution of identities.
Class Description:
This course is an examination of what we take completely for granted today: a world of print, books, and readers. The course will examine the rise of alphabetic writing, the place of writing in medieval societies; the rise of printed material in the 15th century, and the spread and domination of print in the world of the mass press of the 18th and 19th centuries. We will conclude the course with a consideration of what it means to read in the conditions of computers, hypertext, and the internet in the present. Please contact the instructors for further information. Taught by Tom Wolfe and JB Shank.
Grading:
50% Reports/Papers
25% In-class Presentations
25% Class Participation
Class Format:
25% Lecture
75% Discussion
Workload:
50-100 Pages Reading Per Week
25 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65119/1253
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
15 June 2011

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