Dec 25, 2025  
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

COMM 8690 - Critical and Cultural Approaches to Communication


3 Credit Hours
Description
Examination of the relationship between culture and power in a global communication context. Readings include both founding theoretical texts (the Marxist tradition, the Frankfurt School, the Birmingham School) and current scholarship in rhetoric, political economy, and international communication. Multiple, intersecting structures of power are interrogated, including class, gender, age, and race.