1. Welcome and What is Education?
   1. Is there a text in this class?: Education as Discipline, as Liberation and as Healing.
   2. Who is "Reading" Whom? Reading our Textbooks.

   1.3 What is TV or "Who Owns Language"? The Critical Invitation

2. UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION

3. UNDERSTANDING "MASS" COMMUNICATION.

3.1 Adding Technology to Communication

3.2 Understanding the "Mass" in Mass Communication: From "the Masses: to Mass Production and Mass Culture

3.3 Techno-Hysteria: Technology as communication OR if technology isn’t the answer, are we asking the wrong questions?

4. "READING" TELEVISION

4.1 How to watch television like a professional: Reading Television

4.2 What’s On?

5. Examination One

6. UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY---MEDIA ECONOMICS

7. UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY---MEDIA HISTORY AND MEDIA POLICY: Selective Regulation and Selective Deregulation--- Where is the Public in Republic? OR Does the Public Have an Interest?

8. UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY--- MEDIA LAW: ITS NOT JUST THE LAW, IT’S SOMEBODY’S IDEA OF WHAT IS GOOD.

9. Examination Two

10. COMMUNICATION, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY

10.1 Seeing is Unbelieving

10.2 Dialogics: Communication as an act of freedom and responsibility

11. GETTING STARTED: STUDYING MASS MEDIA AND SOCIETY