[Cwgrad-announcements] Fw: Course description for Toby Miller's seminar

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Hi all, Here's the course description for English 273-002 in Winter 2006,
co-taught by Toby Miller and Ellen Wartella. The course descriptions are now 
complete. Cheers, Steve Axelrod

ENGLISH 273-002-SEMINAR IN CULTURAL STUDIES

This seminar will look at cultural studies as it has been used to
interrogate television, addressing such key questions as: the role of the
state, media effects, and ideology. Students will engage such key authors as
Graham Murdock, Larry Gross, George Gerbner, Lynne Spigel, Ellen Wartella,
Herman Gray, Ien Ang, and John Hartley. Throughout we shall consider the
intersection of the social sciences and the humanities, asking questions in
particular about the interrelationship of textual analysis, audience
evaluation, and ethnography. Assessment will be though a seminar paper and
essay of 3000 words.