Who We Are
COM 224T: MASS MEDIA & SOCIETY TRAVEL COURSE TO CUBA examines media practices, histories, and institutions. It explains how mass media work, how they influence us, and how we can analyze and use them effectively. This course travels to Cuba over Spring Break to visit Cuban state-run and independent media production outlets, discuss issues of convergence, expression, and criticism with local academics, state radio and television producers, and independent documentary filmmakers, and embark upon a variety of excursions in and around Havana designed to immerse students within the larger history, culture, and ecology of Cuba. The course then returns to the United States to study the history and development of our own commercially-driven media system during the second seven weeks of the Spring Semester before culminating in the cross-culture comparative media projects published in this blog. (For a one minute video summary of the trip, go here. The next version of this course will take place in Spring 2019. Apply through the UT Studio Abroad Portal and be sure to submit your $500 deposit before the September 1st deadline in order to reserve your spot. For more information, email D. Boulton at [email protected] or visit his travel course page.)