Media History
COMS 300 calendar
Spring 2012

 

Online course

REVOLUTIONS in COMMUNICATION

Print -- Visual -- Electronic -- Digital

Jouralism / Photography / Cinema / Advertising / Public Relations / Telegraphy / Telephony / Radio / Television / Satellites / Computers / Networks / Web2 / Global Culture

 
Section Schedule Reading   More reading
Assignments
Tests & quizzes

 

Section 1
PRINTING

Week 1

Introduction

Additional reading will be linked from the Desire to Learn site

Assignments for Desire to Learn discussions and exercises will be posted here.

Tests and quizzes will be given through Desiere to Learn

 

 

 

Read Resources / introduction and the three history links

  1. About history,
  2. About historians
  3. About Media History)
 
 

Quiz 0 History

 

Week 2

Ch. 1 Printing Revolution  
  Quiz 1 Printing Revolution

 

   
Ch 2
Week 3 Ch. 2 The Industrial media  


Quiz 2

 

   
Ch 3
Week 4 Ch. 3 Print media in the
20th and 21st centuries
 

Quiz 3

             
 
Section 2
THE IMAGE

Week 5
Ch. 4 Photography
and the Visual Revolution
   

Quiz 4

       

 

 
Week 6 Ch. 5 Cinema
    Quiz 5
     


 
Week 7 Ch. 6 Advertising & PR     Quiz 6
             
          Mid Term Exam
 
Section 3
ELECTRONICS
Week 8 Ch. 7 Electronic Revolution /
Telegraphy & Telephony
    Quiz 7
         
Week 9 Ch. 8The Golden Age of Radio   Quiz 8
           
  Week 10 Ch. 9 Television and Satellites
Link the World
      Quiz 9
           
Section 4
DIGITAL
Week 11 Ch. 10 Advent of computers     Quiz 10
 
 
  Week 12 Ch. 11 The History of the Internet     Quiz 11
           
Week 13 Ch. 12 The Global Culture     Quiz 12
       
  Week 14 Conclusions / Further thoughts       Final Exam