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  • COMM 3160: Technology Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Tulane University of Louisiana

    Professor White, Professor Mayer. The study of technology as material culture through its production, dissemination and uses. Theorizes ways of approaching technology as symbolic tools, as material goods and as part of a cultural geography. Contextualizes digitalization in terms of social, political and economic discourses. Includes research methods for analyzing technology.
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  • COMM 3240: Interaction Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Tulane University of Louisiana

    Professor Daruna. Focus on the investigation, interpretation and critical assessment of human interaction. Emphasis is given to interaction occurring in the relational contexts of marriage, friendship and the organization. Study includes the cultural and ideological elements, the models of communication used to explain interaction and the analysis of everyday communication phenomena in each context.
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  • COMM 3250: Rhetorical Analysis

    4.00 Credits
    Tulane University of Louisiana

    Dr. Yilmaz, Staff. The description, analysis, interpretation and evaluation of persuasive uses of language. Emphasis on classical, situational, generic, dramatistic and ideological methods of criticism. Judgments about aesthetic, pragmatic, logical and ethical dimensions of rhetoric.
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  • COMM 3260: Media Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Tulane University of Louisiana

    Professor Porto, Professor Mayer, Staff. The study of the structure of media industries and their contents based on humanistic and social science approaches. Theorizes major trends in industry ownership and practices; the effects of political economy on textual symbols, discourses and genres; the function of media programming in reinforcing or altering perceptions of ideas, events, and people. Familiarizes students with research methods for analyzing media.
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  • COMM 3270: Authors and Genres

    3.00 Credits
    Tulane University of Louisiana

    Prof. Balides, Prof. Lopez, Prof. Ukadike, and Staff. Questions of authorship and of genre are two key paradigms of film criticism. This course examines the aesthetic and theoretical bases for notions of authorship and genre in the cinema including romantic theories of art, auteur criticism, structuralism and post-structuralism. It also considers the historical development of the oeuvre of individual directors as “authors” (e.g. Hitchcock) and of particular film genres both in Hollywood cinema (e.g. film noir) and in non-mainstream and non-U.S. cinema. Genres and directors studied will change. May be repeated up to two times on different topics with approval of the Film Studies Director.
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  • COMM 3280: Media Histories

    3.00 Credits
    Tulane University of Louisiana

    Professor Mayer, Professor Balides. This course looks at media histories, with a focus on the different kinds of stories we tell about media, its contents and contexts. The course explores historical trends, the nature of histiography (the study of history) and some fundamentals of historical research.
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  • COMM 3300: Comparative Political Communication

    3.00 Credits
    Tulane University of Louisiana

    Professor Porto. Examination of the links between media and political systems, based on a comparative approach. Offers a detailed comparison of political communication processes in different regions of the world and identifies how social, cultural and economic contexts are central to understanding the role of the media in political processes.
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  • COMM 3510: Environmental Communication

    3.00 Credits
    Tulane University of Louisiana

    Staff. The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding and analysis of communication processes used in defining environmental issues and shaping environmental policies. Topics include defining nature and environment; diverse audiences and environmental messages; developing strategies for risk communication; and creating effective environmental campaigns. Case studies of successful and unsuccessful environmental communication will be examined.
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  • COMM 3550: Third World Cinema

    3.00 Credits
    Tulane University of Louisiana

    Prof. Ukadike. This course surveys the cinematic practices of the developing nations of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The filmic practice, at once revolutionary and ideological, has not only produced some of the world’s most striking filmic innovations, but is now recognized as having initiated a new phase and expanded definitions of the art of cinema. The issues to be addressed include: the development of a national cinema, the impact of politics on film style, video and television culture, the commonalities and differences in modes of production, the relationship of film to the societies’ values and cultures and the role of cinema as a mediation of history. (Same as ADST 3550).
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  • COMM 3600: Documentary Cinema

    3.00 Credits
    Tulane University of Louisiana

    Prof. Ukadike. Pre-requisite: COMM 115." " The films to be studied in this course are selected from the spectrum of documentary film practice from the 1920s to the present. Concentration will be on specific topics as well as an historical overview. Consideration placed on the developing and shifting conception of documentary film practice, social issues, political and propagandistic values, and documenting “Other,” as well as claims to veracity and objectivity will be treated within an analytical framework. Different approaches to production—particularly within the burgeoning ethnographic and women’s film practices—will also be examined.
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