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3.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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3.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the historical development and current transformation of the Spanish language media industry, particularly in the United States. We will examine how political, economic, and cultural constructions of "Latinidad" are implicated in the production, distribution, and consumption of Spanish-language mass media. This course will also have a Community Service Learning component. Spanish-language fluency is not mandatory, but some proficiency will be very helpful.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide an overview of the theories, tensions, and debates within the study of media literacy/media education as they apply to K-12 classrooms and community endeavors. Current research studies in this area will be examined, and students will have the opportunity to design their own media literacy curricula.
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4.00 Credits
We will cover a broad range of theories and methods for studying various aspects of the relationship between concepts of dialogue, language, identity, community based research and citizenship. Additionally, students will learn methods of dialogue facilitation and will participate in dialogues in class. Each student will develop a proposal to conduct an original research project on some relevant topic in the theory and practice of dialogue. This course is the first half of a two semester sequence. Comm 499CI and Comm 499DI together satisfy the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of Comm 499CI, this course is devoted to the implementation of students? individual research projects. Each will culminate in an archivable Honors Thesis. Comm 499CI and Comm 499DI together satisfy the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors. Prerequisite: Comm 499CI.
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3.00 Credits
Cultural approaches to the study of language behavior and communication. Focus on ethnography. Concepts such as ritual, myth, code, and discourse; enactments such as verbal duels, song challenges, communicative use of silence, and jokes; approaches include empirical, theoretical, and comparative study.
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Process of theory construction, theory testing, and paradigmatic change in communication. Theory relationships among normative and scientific studies. Theory types and their causal mechanisms, units of analysis, and research methodologies. Major theories compared in terms of their theoretical and metatheoret-ical bases. Required of all Communication graduate students; taught in fall.
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3.00 Credits
Qualitative approaches to research, conceptualizations of problems, questions, and methodologies for the field of communication. Emphasis on, interpretive, feminist, critical, and cultural approaches. Introduction to methodological specialties of departmental faculty. Required of all Communication graduate students.
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