FMS-170

This course explores world culture through an analysis of what is arguably its central medium: television. Tracing the medium from its origins in radio to its digital future, we will investigate television as a site of identity formation, controversy, political power, and artistic experimentation. The course will also consider television in terms of industrial production and audience reception, including the rapidly changing practices associated with television viewing in the 21st century. Lectures, discussions, and tests. Open to first-years, sophomores, and Film & Media Studies majors; others by consent of instructor. Distribution areas: Studying the Past, The Individual & Society.

Academic Credit, DIST-HUMANITIES, INTER.DISC-FILM&MEDIA ST, The Individual & Society, Studying the Past