Spring 2025

MEDIAST 111C 001 - LEC 001

Audio-Visual Media History

Matthew Berry

Jan 21, 2025 - May 09, 2025

Mo, We

12:00 pm - 01:59 pm

Physics Building 2

Class #:25014

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0

Enrolled: 100

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 100

Waitlist Max: 2

Open Reserved Seats:

10 reserved for Students with Enrollment Permission

Hours & Workload

4 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 8 hours of outside work hours per week.

Final Exam

WED, MAY 14TH

03:00 pm - 06:00 pm

Physics Building 2

Other classes by Matthew Berry

This course covers the modern global history of audiovisual media forms, with a focus on interactions between new media technologies and emerging modern power structures. We will examine how and why historical agents responded to, made use of, and tried to regulate emerging representational technologies such as painting, printed images and etchings, maps, the theater, panoramas, photography, the telephone, phonography, radio, television, MP3s, JPGs, and digital video. Lectures will consider the impact of specific media technologies on the historical representation and mobilization of religion, race, class, and nationality, as well as the branding and advertisement of consumer commodities.

Class Notes

- During Phase I, most seats will be saved for declared Media Studies students only. Other interested students may place themselves on the waitlist. Remaining reserved seats will be released during Phase 2 of enrollment.
- Enrollment Permission seats are saved for emergencies and will be released much closer to the start of class instruction.
- Freshmen are not permitted to enroll in this course.

For more information on the enrollment process for this course, please visit https://mediastudies.ugis.berkeley.edu/course-enrollment-information/ show less