COM-500 Communication, Media, and Society serves as an introduction to key concepts and theories in the study of communication and media. Students examine the foundations of the discipline of communication, focusing particularly on the ways in which media and technology have impacted the study of culture, relationships, and messages, exploring communication's impact on families, relationships, culture, and how communication and media have changed over time.
Foundational communication theory at graduate depth
The course establishes the discipline's foundational concepts and theories with graduate-level rigor, giving students the theoretical grounding needed for further graduate study or professional application in communication and media fields.
Media and technology's impact on culture and relationships
COM-500 examines how media and technology have specifically shaped culture, relationships, and messages over time, tracing genuine historical change in how communication and media function in society.
Key topics in COM500
- Foundational communication and media theory
- Media and technology's impact on culture
- Communication's role in families and relationships
- Historical evolution of communication and media
- Cross-arena communication analysis
- Graduate-level communication theory application
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- Single-arena view: Considering media's impact only on public discourse or news
- COM-500's broader view: Examining media's impact across families, relationships, and culture simultaneously
- Lesson: COM-500 teaches that media and communication's genuine influence spans far more of social life than public discourse alone, requiring this broader analytical view
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Frequently asked questions
Media and communication technology shape social life far beyond formal public discourse — how families communicate, how relationships form and are maintained, and how cultural norms evolve are all genuinely influenced by media and communication technology, and a course focused only on public discourse would miss these equally significant, more intimate dimensions of media's impact. COM-500 covers this fuller range because comprehensive communication and media literacy requires understanding influence across all these interconnected arenas of social life.
The foundational communication and media theory COM-500 covers is genuinely valuable at multiple levels of study, and its no-prerequisite structure makes it accessible to strong undergraduate students seeking early exposure to graduate-level theoretical depth, while still serving as a genuine foundational course within the graduate program itself. This flexible placement reflects that foundational theory doesn't always need to be gated strictly by degree level, especially for students ready to engage with it earlier.