Here’s a GSU Communications course of possible interest for Rhetoric and Composition graduate students for Spring 2017:

I wanted to draw your attention to a new course I’ll be teaching this spring, titled “Chinese Media, Politics, and Society” and listed under COMM 8980 and COMM 6910 (open to masters and PhD level students). The course meets on Thursday afternoons at 4:30pm, and will present a dynamic overview of media politics in China. Ranging from discussions on censorship or the Great Firewall, to China’s propaganda approaches, environmental activism, and Chinese geopolitical media ambitions, it will be a unique survey of the communication system in one of the world’s most important and least understood regimes. The course will draw heavily on my own experience in China where I spent over 2 years conducting fieldwork. It will also feature guest speakers, including Chinese journalists and officials. While the course focuses on China, it will bring China into dialogue with theories on global and international communication, political communication and media activism.

If you have any questions, please send me a note, and I welcome you to the class.

All best wishes for the end of semester,

Maria