Designed to provide a succinct and accessible, yet comprehensive and sophisticated, understanding of the appropriate uses of media theories in an effort to shed light on the important role of theory in our everyday interactions with media and the social environment.
4
UnitsOptional
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeNot open to freshmen
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeThe content was a little dull but super doable. Weekly reading guides and discussion questions for homework, and a couple of group assignments.
The entire grade was compromised of weekly quizzes, weekly reading guides and a weekly group discussion. The class material was overall interesting. On Tuesdays we had an asynchronous lecture posted online and then on Thursday a more in depth discussion about the material.
Easy class as long as you turn in all the assignments. Really apprieciated the hybrid format.
Grading criteria is very clear, with a gamification style structure of the class, lots of diff assignments and ways to earn points. But I found this structure wasn't for me, it's so much busy work and it's easy to forget assignments, she has built-in lee-way so NOT flexible with due dates. Theories are also very redundant from other comm classes.
Very straightforward class with 10 free-bee points meaning you can miss a quiz entirely and still be in the running for an A+. Not the most interesting in person lectures since they repeat exactly what the asych online lectures say, but class is where you earn random discussion points so can be useful. Easy class just has some busy work.
The class is based on weekly assignments, such as a reading guide and short, 15-minute weekly quizzes. All of the information and answers are found in the textbook. She is so kind, a great lecturer, provided awesome examples, and overall made class discussion very interesting.