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Media and Public Culture
Media, Democracy, and Youth Culture
JOUR 2011
Spring 2003
HUMN 150
Lectures: MW, 2:00 - 2:50
Recitations: F, times vary
FINAL GRADES are now available through
CU PLUS.
CUTOFF Final points to earn an A=94 (aka, A=94 and above);
A-=90; B+=87; B=84; B-=81; C+=87; C=75; C-=72; D+=68; D=65. In many cases,
it was the participation points that made the difference, and we were
glad to reward you for speaking up in lecture and recitation.
How you did as a class: A=35; A-=37; B+=21; B=30; B-=7;
C+=7; C=7; F=1
Thanks for a great semester and have a good summer!
Syllabus
Final
Exam
 Asst.
Research Prof: Dr. Lynn Schofield Clark
Office: Armory 102B
Office Hours: M 3 - 5 by appt; W 1 - 2 by appt; F 3 - 5 by appt.
Office Phone: 303-735-5632
E-mail: Lynn.Clark@colorado.edu
Home:Lynn
Schofield Clark's Home Page
Jin.Park@Colorado.edu,
Yuri.Obata@Colorado.edu,
Mary.Caton-Rosser@Colorado.edu
At key moments in U.S. history, young people have been catalysts for
social and political change, often taking the media in new and unanticipated
directions. In this class we explore the construction of youth as political
participants, audiences, and consumers. We begin by considering the question:
how would you have experienced the relationship between media and the
public if you had been 20 years old in the 1900s, the 1910s, the 1920s,
and in every decade up until the present day? Examining key changes in
communication technologies and the legal, political, and economic environments
that shaped them, we look at issues such as evolving notions of youth,
citizenship, civic engagement, and the relationship of these things to
understandings of media as a site of an informed citizenry, a dream factory,
and a key mechanism in the consumptive mode of late capitalism. In the
second half of the class, we turn to questions of how we think about the
relationship between the media, political socialization, and young people
today. Through a close examination of current trends in the media businesses,
we explore the challenges you will encounter as a professional and/or
consumer in the media, considering how you can play a role as an actor
in history.
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