Week 1
Monday
1/12 |
Introduction
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Wednesday
1/14 |
Media Literacy
Blogs and Networks
The Common Craft Show |
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Week 2
Monday
1/19 |
Discuss Reading
Critical Thinking
Deconstruction |
Readings (due today)
Richard Paul and Linda Elder, Critical Thinking
Assignment (due Monday)
Ad Deconstruction |
Wednesday
1/21 |
Discuss Reading
Growing up Online
Media Use/Effect Paper Overview |
Readings (due today)
Plato, The Allegory of the Cave |
Week 3
Monday
1/26 |
Discuss Reading
Ad Deconstruction Due
Semiotics |
Readings (due today)
Daniel Chandler, Signs |
Wednesday
1/28 |
Discuss Reading
Semiotics |
Readings (due today)
Daniel Chandler, Modality and Representation |
Week 4
Monday
2/2 |
Discuss Reading
Media Use/Effect Paper Due |
Readings (due today)
Daniel Chandler, Denotation, Connotation and Myth |
Wednesday
2/4 |
Consumption Log Overview
Visual Storytelling - Ashes and Snow
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Readings (due today)
Daniel Chandler, Rhetorical Tropes |
Week 5
Monday
2/9 |
Discuss Reading
Television
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Readings (due today)
Daniel Chandler, Codes |
Wednesday
2/11 |
Discuss Reading
Radio
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Listening Assignment (due today)
Radio Lab, War of the Worlds
(.mp3)
Assignment (due Monday)
Write Reaction Essay to Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations
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Week 6
Monday
2/16 |
Quiz on Semiotics
Consumption Log Due
Discuss Reading
Group Presentation Overview
Out Foxed |
Readings (due today)
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations
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Wednesday
2/18 |
Discuss Readings
Propaganda War: Scientology v Anonymous |
Readings (due today)
Richard Paul and Linda Elder, How to Detect Media Bias and Propaganda
Tim O'Shea, Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything |
Week 7
Monday
2/23 |
Media Ownership
Discuss Reading
The Corporation
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Assignment (due Wednesday)
Write 2 Reaction Essays (1) The Corporation (2) The Merchants of Cool |
Wednesday
2/25 |
Discuss Reading
What is a meme?
Internet Memes
Group Meetings
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Readings (due today)
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Screening (due today)
The Merchants of Cool
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Week 8
Monday
3/2 |
Film Viewing Assignment Overview
Group Presentations
Media Violence
Bowling for Columbine |
Assignment (due 3/16)
Film viewing assignment - write review of a film playing in the Durango Independent Film Festival and post it to your blog
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Wednesday
3/4 |
Group Presentations
Discuss Reading
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Readings (due today)
George Gerbner, Television Violence at a Time of Turmoil and Terror |
Week 9 |
Spring Break |
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Week 10
Monday
3/16 |
Group Presentations
Discuss Reading
Video Games
Second Life |
Readings (due today)
Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Sandra Chang-Kredl, “The toughest chick in the alien world”: “Girl Power” and the Cartoon Network |
Wednesday
3/18 |
Group Presentations
Discuss Reading
The Celluloid Closet |
Readings (due today)
Jimmy Kalamaras, We’re Here, We’re Queer…but Have You Dealt with it? Homosexuality in Today’s Media
Assignment (due Monday)
Write a 200 word Reaction Essay about The Celluloid Closet and post it to your blog. |
Week 11
Monday
3/23 |
Group Presentations
De/Re Construct Project Overview
Photoshop Overview |
Assignment (due 3/30)
De/Re Construct Project
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Wednesday
3/25 |
Final Project Overview
Photoshop (continued)
Green |
Assignment
Final Project: Proposal, Presentation, and Paper |
Week 12
Monday
3/30 |
De/Re Construct Project Due
Discuss Final Project Ideas
Schedule Meetings and Final Presentations |
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Wednesday
4/1 |
Proposals Due
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Week 13 |
Individual Meetings |
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Week 14
Monday
4/13 |
Presentations |
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Wednesday
4/15 |
Presentations |
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Week 15
Monday
4/20 |
Presentations |
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Wednesday
4/22 |
Presentations |
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Week 16
Wednesday |
12:00 – 2:00
Presentations
Final Paper Due |
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