I took this course in the Spring of 2006 and earned an A- [3.7].
After I completed this course at UNC-Chapel Hill, the school re-numbered all of their courses to match the year you should take the class better. When I took this class it was COMM 95, it is now COMM 390. I’ve copied the description of the class from this UNC-Chapel Hill site below:
“Course Overview
This course focuses on selected aspects of communication studies. This course will cover the role of communication in technology, culture, and society. The course moves historically, exploring the cultural impact of technology in the mid-1800s (telegraph), the early 1900s (film, telephone), World War II (commercial radio, television), and the 1960s (transnational information technologies, computer, VCR, walkman). The second half of the course focuses on the current implications of the Internet for democracy, privacy, community, art, entertainment and other concepts central to US society and culture.
[top of page]
Required Textbooks
- Anne Wells Branscomb, Who Owns Information?: From Privacy to Public Access (1995)
- Christiane Paul, Digital Art (2003) This book is not required for the summer session.
You may purchase these texts in person at the Higher Grounds bookstore, or you can order them online or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.
[top of page]
Instructor: summer: Rich Cante, PhD; fall, spring: Joyce Rudinsky, PhD
Department: Communication Studies
Credit hours: 3
Perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The General Education curriculum at UNC-Chapel Hill has changed, and there is a new set of requirements for students entering as of fall 2006. The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills if you are entering under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).”
0 Responses to “Communications 95: Special Topics in Communication Studies: Technology, Culture, and Society”