Eugenics, Population control, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Technology, Science and Technology, Cultural Studies, Scandinavia, Greenland, Colonialism, Disability, Medicine and Media.
MDST 1001 - Foundations of Media Studies
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Introduces students to key issues and debates and contemporary applications of critical media studies focusing on economic, social, political and cultural implications. Provides an understanding of the relationship between theory and practice and equips students with the tools to critically analyze various forms of textual transmission.
MDST 2001 - Introduction to Global Media
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Fall 2025
Explores a world in which new media have enabled humans to be joined in a global system of socio-cultural and economic relations. Underscores the political dimensions of global media, the convergence of global culture, and the ways in which values are produced. Prepares students to become critical of media practices and empowered as active civic participants.
MDST 2010 - Media and Social Movements
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Fall 2025
Surveys the history and contemporary efforts of social activists to bring about democratic media reform and examines how media are used as tools for connecting and advancing social movements. Emphasis is given to media activism and social movements in the United States, as well as to similar and related transnational activism and movements. Meets Practice Course Requirement.
MDST 3001 - Media Research
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Spring 2026
Introduces theoretical approaches and practices used to analyze the content, structure, influence and contexts of media. Explores factors shaping media, including: politics, economics, technology, cultural traditions. Studies concepts, theoretical approaches and research methods of media criticism, and adopts and adapts these frameworks in analyses of mediated communication.
MDST 3711 - Media and Popular Culture
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Spring 2026
Examines culture in the form of discourse, symbols, and texts transmitted through the media. Explores the relationship between such mediated culture and social myth and ideology.
