FILM 345 Television: Structure and Function Units: 3.00
Intermediate examination of television and the development of the medium as a distinctive cultural form, through a range of programs and programming formats, issues of audience, and television broadcasting in Canada.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop a multiperspectival, historically rich, and socially conscious analytical method to review cultural products like television.
- Produce academic research papers demonstrating critical media literacy while also developing creative thinking and actively try and publish their work.
- Understand developments in contemporary televisual storytelling alongside ongoing political developments by seeing their tendencies as reciprocal.
- Understand the relation of visual aesthetics and techniques to create mood and communicate story.