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COMS 320. Media and Empire.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The relationship between mass media and empire-building, as well as the role of mass and alternative media in anti-imperialism movements. Topics may include: Print technologies and the British Empire; shipping technologies, industrialization and the slave trade; new media and the anti-war and anti-globalization movements.
  • Prerequisite: One of the following: COMS 200, COMS 210, or COMS 230 or permission of the instructor.

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