SPCOM 229History and Communication
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- Spring 2023
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog from Fall 2022 to Spring 2023 and last ran in Winter 2023. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
When it ran
- F22
- W23
Ran in 2 terms, Fall 2022 to Winter 2023.
This course takes a historical approach to the discipline of communication studies. Using a range of historiographic approaches, it analyzes technologies, theories, and practices of communication within the broader context of social and historical change. Potential topics include writing in the ancient world, the printing press, radio and television, cinema and sound recording, the computer and new media.
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 2022–23Its last calendar entry, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
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- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them