Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded)
April 5:
Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
April 5:
Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
April 6:
Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded)
April 6:
Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded)
April 7:
Add this course
April 7:
Last day to change to or from audit
April 13:
Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded)
April 13:
Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded)
April 20:
Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded)
April 20:
Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded)
April 27:
Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded)
April 27:
Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded)
May 18:
Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded)
May 18:
Change grading option for this course
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Expanded Course Description
This course reviews the historic role of communication in shaping societies and institutions in the United States. We will try to understand mass communication as it truly was, and not to imagine that it was merely a crude model of what it has become in our own time.
Our goal is to achieve an overall understanding of both the extraordinary reach and the unexpected limitations of media messages, technologies and power. These themes are addressed through a selective discussion of ideas, technologies, events, people, professional practices, economics and politics from the American Revolution until the present. Students write two papers, both of which are based on original research of historical documents.
- Wait list is available when course is full
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