COURSES (UC SAN DIEGO)
COMM 145 History, Memory, and Popular Culture: What role does popular culture play in shaping and creating our shared memory of the past? Examining products and practices such as textbooks, monuments, holidays, gaming, museums, films, music, and tourist attractions this course challenges students to explore the complex and taken-for-granted relationship between history, memory, and popular culture, including what this relationship can tell us about the present.
COMM 190: Making ‘Americanness’ in Popular Culture: This junior seminar examines how popular cultural products and narratives (re)construct and define ‘Americanness,’ and the political stakes of this construction.
COMM 129 Race, Nation, and Violence in Multicultural California: How does media representation of race, nation, and violence work? Taking multicultural California as our site, this course explores how social power is embedded in a variety of visual texts, and how media not only represents but also reproduces conflict.
COMM 103F How to Read a Film: What does it mean to ‘read’ a film? This introductory course on the language of film examines filmmaking techniques in addition to modes of production, technological and economic factors, narrative structure, and historical context. The course helps students broaden their understandings of film as a mass medium and develop critical skills for analyzing visual culture.
COMM 102D: Communication Practicum: This upper division practicum course provides students with a cultural laboratory experience in applying communication, media, learning, and development theories to practice. Students work with underserved children in countywide after-school programs to design and facilitate their own participatory research projects.
COMM 110T: Language, Thought, and Media: This upper division course explores various communicative channels that mediate human action and thought on both the individual and collective level.
Approved Proposed Courses: ENVR 102 (Environmental Studies) Blackness and Wilderness; COMM 113T: Migration and Memory; COMM 190: Speculative Future Narratives