Curriculum

Although there are many ways to organize curriculum in media and technology studies, this is both the most simple and complex of all. It is simple enough to be immediately understood and comprehensive enough to encompass the most complex of concepts and issues in media and technology studies.

Media & Technology Studies course content:

1. Media & Technology Studies and Education
   1. Topic 1: Media Semantics, Rhetoric and Epistemology
   2. Topic 2: Media & Technology Education / Media & Technological Literacy or Literacies
2. Media & Technology Practice
   1. Topic 3: Media Production 
3. Media & Technology Ethics & Law
   1. Topic 4: Regulation of the Citizen and Media
      1. Free Speech and Freedom of the Press
      2. Free Inquiry & Freedom of Thought
      3. Regulatory Codes / Codes of Ethics
   2. Topic 5: Academic Freedom / Teaching Controversial Subjects / Course and Resource Approval
   3. Topic 6: Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights
4. Media & Technology Method, Theory & History
   1. Topic 7: Media Methods
   2. Topic 8: Media & Technology Theory
   3. Topic 9: History of Media & Technology

Download an elaboration of this curriculum, which represents the design of EDCP 481 and ETEC 531.