COMM 108
Communication and Identity
Description: Lecture, three hours. Study of relationships among communication, culture, and identity, and examination of ways in which texts (broadly construed) constitute experience, difference, and subjectivity. Focus on function of language, representation and meaning in construction of self, social collectives, and world views. Consideration of how communication is performative endeavor for humans seeking to construct identity. Students are prepared to describe and explain theories that detail performance as communicative form, analyze ways language and discourse function as texts that work to produce significant personal and social identities, and describe specific principles, motivations, and theoretical categories within interdisciplinary study of culture that produce identity. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2023 - Agree with the other reviews from Spring 2023. This class was so hard for a 4 unit class. You definitely need to put in work to get an A. The midterm was one of the hardest midterms I have ever taken as a North campus major. Her midterm is multiple choice, but the questions and answers were so vague and specific at the same time. The final was online and it was a lot more easier. This class was also a lot of work for no reason and she sorta graded a little bit hard on discussion posts which was basically another paper on Black Mirror episodes. You have to write two papers; the first paper is about a film you choose from and the second paper is with a partner and you both get the same grade. If you're a comm major, I think you have to take this class, but if you're not a comm major, I would not recommend taking this class because it was so hard. I focused on this class more than my other major classes, and I think that should say something.
Spring 2023 - Agree with the other reviews from Spring 2023. This class was so hard for a 4 unit class. You definitely need to put in work to get an A. The midterm was one of the hardest midterms I have ever taken as a North campus major. Her midterm is multiple choice, but the questions and answers were so vague and specific at the same time. The final was online and it was a lot more easier. This class was also a lot of work for no reason and she sorta graded a little bit hard on discussion posts which was basically another paper on Black Mirror episodes. You have to write two papers; the first paper is about a film you choose from and the second paper is with a partner and you both get the same grade. If you're a comm major, I think you have to take this class, but if you're not a comm major, I would not recommend taking this class because it was so hard. I focused on this class more than my other major classes, and I think that should say something.
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