Creative Technologies

CT 101 Persuasion and Resistance: Power in Contemporary Digital Media

The study of power in contemporary media environments. How do audience, genre, medium, and other contexts impact our reception of a message? Explores contemporary theory and practice of media, applied to commercial and institutional promotion, advertising, and activism. Enables critical views of media in social, cultural, and political contexts. Projects combine scholarship and creative work to invite students' imagination of a media world in which learning, dialogue, contemplation, fun, and play can help enable flourishing and just communities.

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CT 11, CT 20, and CT 100; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements, Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior creative technologies majors.

Credits

5

General Education Code

PE-H

Quarter offered

Fall

Instructor

Ben Carson, Dorothy Santos