Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Dec 13, 2025  
Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

COM 337 - Media Criticism (4 Cr.)

(LER - TXT)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course examines the critical and theoretical approaches to understanding the televisual world. From formalist to feminist and postmodernist theory, students gain an in-depth understanding of the codes and conventions that govern the cultural production of television. Ideological, genre-based, auteurist, and other approaches are examined. Prerequisites: COM 105 , COM 232 , and COM 262 , by the beginning of the course; or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Kimball, Marcus, Morris, Zurawik.