Session

Winter 2023

 Term

W

Format

SEMR

Instructor

Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite

Builds on AP/COMN 4732 3.00 Theories of Diaspora and Transnational Media, providing a survey of the key issues regarding diaspora and second-generation identity. Particular attention will be given to the role of transnational media in the construction of second-generation identities from different theoretical and methodological approaches. Key concepts such as hybridity, symbolic boundaries, 'browning'and gender are explored through a diasporic lens. Prerequisites: AP/COMN 4732 3.00. Course credit exclusion: AP/COMN 4333 3.00 (prior to Fall 2012). Open to: Communication Studies majors with 84 credits completed.

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