[ecrea] Development Communication Class Summer 2010

> The University of Missouri-St
> Louis is offering an internet based course beginning June 14, ending
> August 7, 2010.  Introduction to Comparative International Media
> Systems (MedSt 2500) is an online course offered for both credit and
> non-credit.  The Summer 2010 course deals with development
> communication and attempts by core nations to assist those in the third
> world through a variety of communication/media efforts.  Comparative
> Media Systems consists of weekly videos, readings and discussions. 
> The textbook is Developmental Communication: Reframing the Role of the
> Media  (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers) by Tom McPhail who also teaches
> this course.  Students from anywhere in the world – with internet
> access- may enroll.
>  
> In Developmental Communication: Reframing the Role of the
> Media, top media scholars explore the details of communication
> in areas where modernization has failed to deliver change.
> ·         Offers a complete
> introduction to the history of development communication – process of
> systematically intervening with either media or education in order to
> promote positive social change.
> ·         Discusses the major
> approaches and theories in development communication, including
> educational issues of training, literacy, schooling, and use of media
> from print and radio to video and the internet
> ·         Explores the role of
> NGOs, the CNN Effect, and the power of grass-roots movements and
> ‘bottom-up’ approaches that challenge the status quo in global media
>  
>  
> For additional information on YouTube about the course see:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXMbXXM9YeM&feature=related
>  
>  
> To register for Media Studies 2500, for either credit or non-credit,
> students may contact Raina Traore-Gress  by phone at 314-516-5974 or
> by email:
> (traoregressr /at/ umsl.edu)
>