Course Description
This course provides a survey of media and communications history from the ancient world to the present digital age. The course will focus on both the content of communications and the media-technological history of communications. Special emphasis will be placed on moments of media transformation like the rise of spread of printing, the creation of reproducible images, broadcast media, and the digitalization of information and life.

Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, studentswill be able to:

• Trace the history of media transformation from the ancient world until today.
• Understand the relationship between technology and information content.
• Connect media history to broader social, cultural, and political movements.
• Discuss the methods media historians use to approach the history of media and communications.
• Coherently present ideas about media history through public speaking.
• Write structured essays about media history.

*Course content subject to change