COMM 410 - Asian Americans and the Media

Units: 3

Examines Asian Americans’ relationship to traditional and emerging media and studies these texts in relation to the history of Asian Americans, the historical imaging and imagination of Asian Americans, and Asian American subjectivities more generally. Through a rhetorical, media, and Asian American studies perspective, students will analyze media with the purpose of demonstrating how communities are created, identities are communicated, and persuasive elements are employed in producing and contesting the historical and cultural memory of Asian Americans. (CCSC or MC) May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for: COMM 420-2.

Satisfies GE area: DD