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2025 Fall

Intro to Media Studies (History) - FMS151 Fall 2025


Course
Seth Rogoff
For information about registration please contact our admissions.

Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Introduction to the Course

2. Media Today

A discussion of the contemporary media environment to set the stage for our historical journey!

3. Harold Innis and Origins of Media History

Exploration of Harold Innis’ theory of media history

4. Print Media, the Renaissance, and the Reformation

5. Print Media, Enlightenment Culture, and Revolution

6. The Rise of the Periodical Press; Women and the 19th Century Press

7. Photography, Identity, and Power

8. Midterm Exam

9. Radio, Music

10. Film

11. Television, Part 1

12. Television, Part 2

13. History of the Internet and the (Dis)information Age

14. Final Exam

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