Description
This course examines media by uncovering the historical layers, forgotten technologies, and cultural assumptions that shape how media systems function today. Students will explore media artifacts, infrastructures, and practices across time, analyzing how past media forms influence contemporary communication, culture, power, and technological development. The course emphasizes critical inquiry, historical thinking, and interdisciplinary analysis to better understand media as an evolving social and technological phenomenon. Meets General Education categories III.A (pre-2025); Historical Thinking; Culture, Rhetoric, and Media (2025+).