COGR 238. The Frankfurt School on Mass Culture Social Theory (4 units)
Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/COMM.html#cogr238
Description
This reading seminar will consider works by Frankfurt School theorists (Horkheimer, Adorno, Pollock, Lowenthal, Marcuse, Benjamin, Habermas) on mass media, mass culture, ideology, art, authority and the individual, and their relevance in the analysis of contemporary capitalism. Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Prerequisite courses
COGR 238 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have COGR 238 as a prerequisite.