COMM 3400

Global Media Industries

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

In this class, students will learn about entertainment media, media systems, new media and the ways in which they interconnect with globalization, colonialism and imperialism. Here, students will contextualize media across national contexts paying attention to how mass media shapes or is shaped by social, political, religious and economic factors. They will learn how to do critical comparative analyses of entertainment media across nations and from these analyses make projections about how media have and will influence key events intra-nationally and transnationally.

Distribution Requirements (CA-AG)

Last 4 Terms Offered (None)

Learning Outcomes

• Comparatively analyze global media systems apply critical thinking skills in conducting research and evaluating information by methods appropriate to the communications professions in which they work.
• Demonstrate culturally proficient communication that empowers those traditionally disenfranchised in society, especially as grounded in race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and ability, domestically and globally, across communication and media contexts.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the multicultural history and role of professionals and institutions in shaping communications.
• Utilize skills and knowledge acquired in class to support social change within the context of media and communications.

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