Global Media and Communication

Faculty
Language, Literature & Performing Arts
Department
Communications
Course Code
CMNS 2200
Credits
3.00
Semester Length
15 weeks
Max Class Size
35
Method Of Instruction
Lecture
Seminar
Online
Hybrid
Typically Offered
To be determined
Campus
New Westminster

Overview

Course Description
This course offers a comprehensive look at the trends and challenges in global media and communication. Students will learn how to use analytical tools to theorize globalization and its processes in the context of prominent historical events. Students will also focus on the shifting trends in the global media landscape in the news, film, and television industries.
Course Content

This course will cover selected key concepts from the following topics:

Globalization: Definitions and Debates

  • Theorizing Globalization
  • Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and Culture

Perspectives in Global Media and Communication

  • Propaganda and Realism
  • The Cold War and Liberalism
  • The Global Communication Order and Critical Theory
  • Cultural Imperialism and Postcolonial Studies
  • Global Media and Hybrid Cultures
    • Cultural Influences from Around the Globe
    • Canada vs the US: A Struggle for Cultural Identity
  • Shifts in the Political, Economic and Cultural Landscape
Methods Of Instruction

Some or all of the folowing methods will be used:

  • Lecture/seminar
  • Media (including video and documentary film)
  • Discussion of class readings and materials
  • Student-provided materials
Means of Assessment

Students will be assessed using a variety of evaluations, such as

Case Study – 20%

Midterm Exam – 30%

Research Paper – 30%

Research Paper Presentation – 10%

Attendance and Participation – 10%

Total - 100%

Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this course will

  1. Develop an understanding of the major trends and challenges in global media and communication
  2. Identify appropriate theoretical frameworks by which to assess global media
  3. Apply these communication theories to an analysis of the global communication order
  4. Evaluate critically changes in the communication order over time as competing global media influences emerge
  5. Situate the changing cultural landscape within a broader shift in global power relations
Textbook Materials

An instructor-compiled coursepack and a course textbook in current edition, such as one of the following:

Daya Thussu (Ed.), International Communication: A Reader

Daya Thussu, International Communication: Continuity and Change

David Held and Anthony McGrew (Eds.), The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate

Requisites

Prerequisites

CMNS 1220 Communication and Social Change

OR

CMNS 1221 Introduction to Media and Communication Studies

Corequisites

No corequisite courses.

Equivalencies

No equivalent courses.

Requisite for

None

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

Institution Transfer Details Effective Dates
Alexander College (ALEX) ALEX ARTS 2XX (3) 2015/01/01 to -
Athabasca University (AU) AU CMNS 2XX (3) 2015/01/01 to -
Capilano University (CAPU) CAPU CMNS 2XX (3) 2015/01/01 to -
Coquitlam College (COQU) No credit 2015/01/01 to -
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) KPU COMM 2XXX (3) 2015/01/01 to -
Langara College (LANG) LANG CMNS 2XXX (3) 2015/01/01 to -
Northern Lights College (NLC) NLC COMM 2XX (3) 2015/01/01 to -
Okanagan College (OC) OC CMNS 110 (3) 2015/01/01 to -
Simon Fraser University (SFU) SFU CMNS 2XX (3) 2015/01/01 to -
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) TRU CMNS 2XXX (3) 2015/01/01 to -
Trinity Western University (TWU) TWU COMM 2XX (3), *Media Studies stream 2015/01/01 to -
University Canada West (UCW) UCW COMM 2XX (3) 2015/01/01 to -
University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) UBCO CULT 2nd (3) 2015/01/01 to -
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) UBCV ARTS 2nd (3) 2015/01/01 to -
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) UFV MACS 2XX (3) 2015/01/01 to -
University of Victoria (UVIC) UVIC TS 200 (1.5) 2015/01/01 to -

Course Offerings

Winter 2021

There aren't any scheduled upcoming offerings for this course.