Mass Media: A Cultural History
COM-3040-20010
Purchase College
- Semester
- Summer 2025
- Instructor
- Sharon Zechowski
- Start Date
- 06-02-2025
- Total Credits
- 4
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- 914-251-6361
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An interdisciplinary (social science and humanities) course that emphasizes critical thinking in understanding the social and historical effects of mass media in the U.S. and throughout the world. This course begins in 19th-century America, when print media shaped and defined the national culture, and concludes in the current century with the mass-media convergence of print, electronic, and digital multimedia that is shaping and defining our global culture.
General Education Area(s): Humanities
Course Area: Communication Studies
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Dates: 06-02-2025 - 06-27-2025
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