Catalog 2017-2018

LIT 444 Wordimagebookscreen

Drawing on various disciplines, this course focuses on methods for "reading" culture and contemporary consciousness, concentrating on word and image in the formation of attitudes, ideologies and myths. Introduces cultural analysis and a metalanguage through which students can understand the competing sign systems and discourses of culture.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

AWR 101, AWR 201, one literature course; or permission of the instructor.

Distribution

(A) (HFA) (W)