COMM 100BCommunication, Culture, and Representation
This course is a critical introduction to the history of representation, surveying a range of theories and methods that have been used to understand and shape representational practices. The course will focus on relationships between form and content across various representational genres in shifting cultural contexts. Course work may integrate scholarly study with production (e.g., image-making or video/media production). No credit for COMM 100BR if taken after COMM 100B.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “junior or senior standing.”
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 2 · Winter (1 program).
Required in (1)
- Communication (B.A.)
One of the options in (2)
- Linguistics (Language and Society) (B.A.)
- Media Industries&Comm
Courses that list COMM 100B as a prerequisite (48)
- COMM 120I AMP: Social Issues in Media Production
- COMM 120M AMP: Media Stereotypes
- COMM 120N AMP: News Media Workshop
- COMM 120P AMP: Digital Media in Education
- COMM 120W AMP: Writing for Digital Media
- COMM 126 Children and Media
- COMM 127 Problem of Voice
- COMM 129 Race, Nation, and Violence in Multicultural California
- COMM 131 Communication, Dissent, and the Formation of Social Movements
- COMM 132 Advanced Topics in Communication, Politics, and Society
- COMM 133 Television and Citizenship
- COMM 134 Media Audiences
- COMM 135 Contemporary Minority Media Makers and the Festival Experience
- COMM 136 Transmedia
- COMM 137 Black Women Filmmakers
- COMM 138 Black Women, Feminism, and Media
- COMM 139 Examining Marvel’s Black Panther
- COMM 140 Cinema in Latin America
- COMM 142 Film Authorship
- COMM 144 American Television in the 1970s
- COMM 145 History, Memory, and Popular Culture
- COMM 146 Advanced Topics in Cultural Production
- COMM 149 Southern California in Cinema
- COMM 151 The Information Age: Fact and Fiction
- COMM 153 Architecture as Communication
- COMM 156 Media and Conflict Environment: Textual and Visual Representations
- COMM 158 Representations of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
- COMM 159 Tourism and Imperialism
- COMM 160 Political Economy and International Communication
- COMM 162 Advanced Studies in Cultural Industries
- COMM 163 Concepts of Freedom
- COMM 164 Behind the Internet: Invisible Geographies of Power and Inequality
- COMM 166 Surveillance, Media, and the Risk Society
- COMM 168 Bilingual Communication
- COMM 170 Biography and Life Stories
- COMM 172 Advanced Topics in Mediation and Interaction
- COMM 173 Interaction with Technology
- COMM 174 Communication and Social Machines
- COMM 175 Cultures of Consumption
- COMM 176 Communication and Religion
- COMM 177 Culture, Domination, and Resistance
- COMM 178 Communication and Nonhuman Animals
- COMM 180 Advanced Studies in Communication Theory
- COMM 181 Citizen Consumers
- COMM 182 Education and Global Citizenship
- COMM 183 Global Economy and Consumer Culture
- COMM 184 Global Nature/Global Culture
- COMM 185 Communication for Indigenous Justice