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Winter Class 2004
January 11, 2004, 11:06 PM
See as tomorrow is the 1st day back at class, and I am MORE then likey going to be talking about classes. This entry will be my classes, when I have them and what they are about. I know it might be a bit boring for this entry, but it's nice background to link to when I start yammering my hiney off.
Central and East European Studies (CEST) 313 - Lecture 01
An Introduction to Cultural Traditions
Winter 2004
MWF 10:00-10:50
Course Description
This course will explore the cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe including selected problems in such areas as the archeology, history, languages, and ethnology, art and architecture, music, literature, and religion of the peoples of this area.
Objectives of the Course
The objective of the course is to provide a general framework for understanding the historical emergence of the cultural fault lines of Central and Eastern Europe and the politicized nature of culture in this region, as well as for thinking about this region's struggle to define itself between "East" and "West."
Canadian Studies (CNST) 335 - Lecture 02
Mass Communications and Canadian Society
Winter 2004
TR 9:30, 75 minutes
Course Description
This course offers a broad introduction to mass communications in Canadian life, with an emphasis on the different ways that the media of mass communications in Canada serve to mediate questions of Canadian national identity. How do the mass media shape Canadian society, for example, and how does society shape the mass media? How should we understand the relationship between national culture and nationhood, and how has national culture been promoted as a goal of national cultural policy? How should we determine whether our national culture should be a thing of the "market" or a thing of the "public"? How does our system of mass media support or undermine a democratic political system? And how does the development of new technologies promise or threaten to change our landscape of mass communications?
Objectives of the Course
At the end of this course, you should have an understanding of the major problems in the field of Canadian mass communication, ranging across different media (print, radio, television, film, and so on), and across different moments of those media (industries, audiences, content, policies, technologies). You should have an understanding of the relationships between Canadian mass communications and Canadian society. And you should have an appreciation for the different ways in which Canadian national identity is spoken through the system of mass communications.
Communications Studies (COMS) 367 - Lecture 02
Introduction to Visual Culture
Winter 2004
Monday, Wednesday 15:00-16:15
Course Description
Students in this course will examine contemporary western visual culture, as it is constituted by visual modes of communication. The course begins by questioning the philosophic and ideological significance of �seeing� in western culture. Through analysis of images in art, print advertising, documentary photography, and a range of television, video and film genres, students will investigate the relation of cultural practices, ideologies and institutions to the production and reception of visual messages. Aesthetic philosophy, semiotics, psychoanalysis, discourse analysis, feminist and postmodern criticism, will be considered as research methods.
Students will engage in a group visual production that synthesizes theory and practice.
Objectives of the Course
The objective of this course is to increase the student's ability to describe and interpret visual messages within a contemporary cultural context. Interpreting images through written assignments and group discussion will be complemented by a visual production connecting critical reflection to visual practice.
Yup so that's it. Wish my luck, and The Powers That Be, if you read this can you PLEASE give me much more careing then last smester. Really that's no way to live.
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