COM 406 - Race, Culture & Communication

Students will explore how race, ethnicity and other cultural identities are created, shaped maintained changed, and contested through communication practices, both mediated (e.g. film, television game media, print, social networks, music) and non-mediated (face to face interactions). Students will learn to analyze overt, subtle and subliminal messages about culture, race, and/or ethnicity presented to us through the media and in non-mediated discourses . Students will complete a semester-long research project exploring communication, race and culture.
Prerequisites: COMM major and 57 credits completed, or COR-3XX.
Credits: 3
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