TELE 320 Critical Television Theory and Analysis

This course seeks to master methods of analysis and theory commonly utilized in Television Studies: historic and industrial, auteurism and genre, semiotics and psychoanalysis, postmodernism, feminist, critical race, discourse, and audience reception. In students’ aspirations to become professionals in the field of television, understanding how TV operates culturally and socially in a sophisticated manner will ultimately make them better creative artists, producers, managers, screenwriters, etc.

Repeatable: N
Formerly 40-3212
Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B or ENGL 111 Foundations of 21st-Century Writing or ENGL 111H Foundations of 21st-Century Writing: Honors or ENGL 112 21st-Century Writing in Creative Disciplines or ENGL 112H 21st-Century Writing in Creative Disciplines: Honors or ENGL 121 International Foundations in 21st-Century Writing or ENGL 122 International 21st-Century Writing in the Creative Disciplines or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3