TVR 30.5: Media Criticism (Television and Radio Criticism)Class Schedule and Assignments - Fall, 2004Monday/Wednesday - 12:15PM-1:30PM |
Semester Syllabus / Lecture Notes
Session | Date | Subject | Assignment |
8 | September 29 | Narrative Theory (continuted) | No additional reading |
9 | October 4 | Genre Theory | Read Allen, Chapter 4 |
10 | October 6 | Writing Media Criticism | Read Levinson, Chapters 4, 5, 6 |
11 | October 13 | Ideological Analysis | Read Allen Chapter 5; Short Paper 1 Due |
12 | October 18 | Ideological Analysis (continued) | Optionally Read Allen, Chapter 7 |
13 | October 20 | Audience-Oriented Criticism | Read Allen, Chapter 3 |
14 | October 25 | Production-Oriented Approaches | Read Levinson, Chapters 7 and 8 |
15 | October 27 | Medium as Message | Read Levinson, Chapters 9 and 10 |
16 | November 1 | Cultural Studies | Read Allen, Chapter 8; Short Paper 2 Due |
17 | November 3 | Theories of Mind | Read Allen, Chapter 6 |
18 | November 8 | Postmodern Approaches | Read Allen, Chapter 9; Term Paper Introduction Due |
19 | November 10 | No Class. Attending NCA | Term Paper Preparation Day |
20 | November 15 | Election Postmortem | No reading; Second Annotated Bibliography |
21 | November 17 | Exam | Good Luck |
22 | November 22 | Uses of Media | Read Levinson, Chaptes 11, 12, 13; First Complete Draft of Term Paper Due |
23 | November 29 | Term Paper Presentations | No Reading |
24 | December 1 | Term Paper Presentations | No Reading |
25 | December 6 | Term Paper Presentations | No Reading |
26 | December 8 | Term Paper Presentations | No Reading |
27 | December 13 | The Rearview Mirror | Read Levinson, Chapters 14 and 15. Final Submission of Term Paper for Grading |
28 | December 14 | Thinking Systematically About Media | Read Allen, Afterword. Note that this is a Tuesday. |
Final | December 20 | Optional Final Exam | Monday from 10:30am - 12:30pm. Term papers and, to the extent it is possible to do so, final grades will be returned at this time. |
Completed Sessions | |||
1 | August 30 | Introduction | No Reading |
2 | September 1 | The Landscape of Media Criticism | Read http://davis.foulger.info/research/unifiedModelOfCommunication.htm and http://evolutionarymedia.com/papers/hammerAsMedium.htm |
3 | September 8 | Exploring and Explaining Media | Read Levinson, Chapters 1, 2, 3 |
4 | September 13 | Doing Media Criticism | Read Allen, Introduction |
5 | September 20 | Semiotics | Read Allen, Chapter One; Bring body of content to class |
6 | September 22 | Semiotics (continued) | No additional reading |
7 | September 27 | Narrative Theory | Read Allen, Chapter 2, First Annotated Bibliography Due |