COMM department

COMM 20. Analysis of Media Forms and Cultures (4 units)

Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/COMM.html#comm20

Description

This course builds the critical skills to understand, analyze, and interpret audio/visual media by introducing students to the basic vocabulary and grammar of audio and moving image texts—how they create meaning through compositional form and narrative style—and key critical methodologies for interpreting media culture. Concepts and approaches covered will lay the groundwork for continued study in both scholarly communication areas and hands-on sound, film/video, and/or social media production.

Prerequisite courses

COMM 20 has no prerequisite courses.

Successor courses

COMM 20 is a prerequisite of the following 1 courses:

• COMM 118C