Students develop interpretive skills by analyzing lighting, editing, color, sound, and interactivity. Class format includes lectures, media clips, and guest speakers. Analyzes electronic and digital media images from students' personal and multicultural perspectives. Students practice critical viewing skills and review the history of global media networks and their effect on multicultural society. Introduces the cognitive and creative tools needed to create text for the World Wide Web.
Students practice new styles of writing for nonlinear media.
Specific topics include copyright, free speech,pornography, and universal internet access. Students analyze how the U.S. justice system responds to emerging technologies. Class format incorporates lectures, discussions, case studies, and media clips. Click here to check current course availability.