COMM 20Analysis of Audio/Visual Media: Form, Style, and Meaning
This course builds the critical skills to understand, analyze, interpret audio/visual media by introducing students to the basic vocabulary and grammar of audio and moving image texts—how they create meaning through compositional form and narrative style—and key critical methodologies for interpreting media culture. Concepts covered will lay the groundwork for continued study in scholarly communication areas and hands-on sound, film/video, and/or social media production. No credit for COMM 20 if taken after COMM 20R.
Prerequisites
None listed in the catalog.
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 2 · Winter (1 program).
One of the options in (1)
- Media Industries&Comm
Courses that list COMM 20 as a prerequisite (15)
- COMM 101A Production of Activist Media
- COMM 106 Introduction to Media Industries
- COMM 106B Streaming Media Industries
- COMM 106D Data and AI Industries
- COMM 106M Advertising and Society
- COMM 110X Texting and Talking
- COMM 115D Data Science for Communication Students
- COMM 115J Journalistic Writing, Reporting, and Research
- COMM 118A Action Cinema
- COMM 118C Comic Books as a Cultural Form
- COMM 118T Television as a Cultural Form
- COMM 130 Creative Labor in the Media Industries
- COMM 147 Media Activism
- COMM 148 Global Cultures of K-Pop
- COMM 152 News Media and Politics