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Action taken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate
Studies at its meeting of December 7, 1976 gives
rise
to the
following motion:
MOTION
That Senate approve, and recommend approval by the
Board of Governors, the following proposed new courses in
the Department of Communication Studies as set forth in S.76-)77.
CMNS 300-5 Introduction to Systems Theory in
Communication
CMNS 330-5 Communications and Cultural Form I
CMNS 430-5 Communications and Cultural Form II
CMNS 434-5 The Political Economy of International
Communications.
CMNS 438-5 Telecommunications Regulation in
North America.
Daniel H. Birch
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on Undergraduate Studies
Subject ........
New...Course...Proposals,.... ......................... .............
Communication Studies
From .......
J. ..Blanthet, Secretary ...
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Faculty ...
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Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Date
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November26,. .1976 .................................. .... ..........
Six New Course Proposals, Communication Studies
I.S.C. 76-35
The Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies Undergraduate
Curriculum Committee has reviewed and approved the attached new course
proposals, and I am forwarding them to you for inclusion on the agenda of
the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies.
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Janet Blanchet, Secretary
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Attach.
SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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MEMORANDUM
To .............Dean R. C. Brown, Faculty ..... From ... William H. Melody, Chairman,
Interdisciplinary Studies.
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Communication Studies Department.
Subjed
Undergraduate Curriculum Changes
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Date ......Nom
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1976.
Attached are course proposals for six (6) new courses in
Communication Studies. The relationships of the courses to existing
courses in Communication Studies and in other departments offering
related material have been examined to ensure that the courses are
designed appropriately. The courses are:
CMNS 300-5: Introduction to Systems Theory in Communications -
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Richards/Wilden
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CMNS 330-5: Communications & Cultural Form I - Martin/Hindley/
Smythe/Melody
CMNS 430-5: Communications & Cultural Form II - Martin/Hindley!
Smythe/Melody
CMNS 434-5: The Political Economy of International Communications -
Melody! Smythe
CMNS 438-5; Telecommunications Regulation in North America - Melody!
Babe
CMNS 300 and3Je Bill Richards' courses. CMNS 330 and 430
reflects an area in which Gail Martin has been doing research for some
time. We expect to have a new faculty member with us in the fall in the
area of critical analysis of the media who would also teach these courses.
Gail Martin desires to teach at least one of the courses during the first
year. CNNS 434 and 438 are provided for Bob Babe and me. I requested
deferral of all other additions. These will be treated as part of our
overall review of the Communication Studies program, now underway.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
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Calendar Information ?
Department: COMMUNICATION STUDIES
Abbreviation Code:
CMNS ?
Course Number:
300
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Credit Hours:5 ?
Vector:2-3-0
Title of Course:
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Introduction to Systems Theory in Communication
Calendar Description of Course: Introduction to and overview of modern systems theory.
Emphasis will be placed on gaining an understanding of the major concepts upon which systems
theory and the systems approach depends:
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The use of these concepts
will be illustrated with applications in biological, psychological, and social systems.
Nature of Course Lecture k7'211'fr-/4/
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
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CMNS 200. May be taken concurrently.
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What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: ?
None
2. Scheduling
How frequently will thecourse be offered? Once a year, in the fall.
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
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Fail 1976 (as CMt3 400)
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? ?
Richards/Wilden
. Objectives of the Course
This course provides th foundations upon which more advanced courses In the systems
stream build.
4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required In the following areas:
Faculty ?
None I
Staff
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None
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Library
Audio Visual
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Equipment
5. Approval
Date: ?
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Books and readings will be placed on reserve. Some additional periodicals
and books may be required.
None
None
None
SCUS 73-34b:- (When com[ting this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
Attach course outline).
Course Outline
GMNS 300-5: Introduction to Systems Theory in Communications
I. Readings and Lectures,
Week
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Topic
1.
Introduction to systems theory part 1.
2.
Introduction part 2.
3.
Organization of systems
4. Information and Information Theory
5. Entropy and thermodynamics
6.
Cybernetics and communication
7.
Homeostasis, equilibrium, growth
8. Self regulation and self direction I
9.
Self regulation and self direction II
10. Self regulation and self direction III
11.
Hierarchy theory
12. Systems and society
Readings are drawn from the following sources:
Buckley, W. Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist
Pattee, H. H. Hierarchy Theory
Bateson, G. Steps to an Ecology of Mind
In addition there are several xeroxed articles from other sources. These
will be placed on reserve in the library.
II. Problem sets
There will be weekly problem sets. They will serve to guide and direct the
readings to the important ideas. They will ask the student to think about
the readings and put the concepts together in new ways.
III. Class format
One class each week will be mainly lecture; the other will be discussion,
focussed around the problem sets. At some point in the semester, students
will be asked to give in-class critiques of either one of the assigned
readings or some other article that seems relevant and interesting. Articles
relating or applying systems theory to the student's own area of interest
are especially welcome.
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Introduction
Thurs 9
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Wed 15
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Thur 16
3
Thea 21
Exploratory and descrintive p
Wed 22
tutorial
Thurs 23
4
Thea 28
Causal relations amona/ariab
Wed 29
tutorial
Thurs 30
5
Tues 5
Explanation and
Wed 6
tutorial
.
Thurs 7
6
Tueø 12
Measurement
Wed 13
tutorial
Thurs 14
7
Thea 19
Ethical ia/ues
Wed 20
tutorial
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Thea 26
Data C1ection
Wed 27
tutor L1
Thurs 28
9
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Wed 3
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Thurs 4
10
Thea 9
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Wed 10
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Thurs 11
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Thea 16 /
Interoretation and the renort
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Thurs 18
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Samnlina
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Wed
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tutorial
Thurs 25
Questionnaires
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S1MON FRASER. UNIVERSITY ?
MEMORANDUM•
Bill Melody,'Chairman,.*
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Date .........
Novembe rl,1976.
I.have checked that the content to be covered in the proposed
new courses GMNS 330 and CHNS 430 does not duplicate the content of any
existing course in the university.
.
There are, of course, points on which our interdisciplinary
approach necessarily touches upon some aspects of the work of other
departments. As would be expected, the department of Sociology and
Anthropology concerns itself at length with the study of culture. It
has courses in Culture and Personality (S.A. 467), Cultural Ecology (S.A. 468),
Cultural Evaluation (S.A. 473) and in the Sociology of Art Forms (S.A. 416).
None of these, however, has for its specific focus, the contemporary mass
media as cultural forms. The communications approach borrows, as the
outline indicates, from the historical sociological and anthropological
theory and methodology as it does from other disciplines, to pursue its
interdisciplinary approach.
As also might be expected, courses in Fine and Performing Arts
occasionally concern themselves with mass media. Two or three lectures
in the new FPA 116 The Arts in Context: North American Styles, and
FPA 382 - Aesthetics of Performance, for example, deal with the study of film.
This is, however, a minor part of courses in which the main interest is
obviously in the broad
field of traditional
art forms and/or art history.
Our proposed new courses complement these existing offerings and
I should think students in any one of the departments would profit greatly
from exposure to the different approaches and to the study of culture
and/or mass media exemplified in the other two.
Gii
M.
Martin
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Department:
COMMUNICATION
STUDIES
Credit Hours:5
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Vector:
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Approval
Date:____________________
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Dean
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Chairman, SCUS
SCUS 73-34b:- (When
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Attach course outline).
ting this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
•Calendar Information
Abbreviation Code:_ MNS ?
Course Number:330
Title of Course:
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CofluflUflicatiOnS & Cultural Form .1
Calendar Description of Course:
Historical review of approaches to the study of mass media and cultural form. Emphasis
will be on the interrelationship of culture and communications in western society in
the media products of the thirties, forties and fifties.
Nature of Course
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
cMNS
230
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the,course be offered?
?
annually
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
?
Fa1L 1977
Which
of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible?
?
MARTIN, HINDLEY,
SMYTHE,
MELODY.
'. Objectives of the Course
To acquaint students with the relationships between mass media and popular culture.
4.
Budgetary
and
Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
Library ?
- some additional sources
Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
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DEPARTMENT
OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES
CMNS
330-5 ?
MEDIA
AND
CULTURAL
FORM I
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Course Outline
Weeks 1-6
Weeks 7-13
ñistorical examination of concepts of "culture and mass media"leading
to a conununications analysis of the role of media in shaping/
reflecting cultural form.
Historical review of methods used in the study of media and
cultural form in the North American and Western Europe tradition.
A.
Content analysis: character stereotypes and situational
patterning in film
and televisions drama; portrayal of
violence and aggression;
B.
cultural indicators: attempts to uncover the effects of
film and television on attitudes, ideals and expectations
of the young;
C.
popular
culture analysts: images of media as purely
'cultural artifacts divorced from social and economic
parameters;
D.
sociological analysis: production and consumption of
'media by audiences as a function of education and socio-
economic status;
E.
economic analysis: interdependence of production
decisions in media with marketing strategies --
films
and
household utensils; the television and women's fashions;
'record albums
and
T-shirts.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
CMNS
330-5
Readings will be assigned from texts such as the following:
ADORNO, T.W.
1957
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"Television and Patterns of Mass Culture" in Rosenberg & White,1957.
ARNOLD, Matthew
1869 ?
Culture and Anarchy.
BURKE, Raymond
1953 ?
Culture and Communications Through the Ages.
Canada. Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and
Sciences. (Massey Commission).
1951 ?
Report.
1951 ?
Background Papers.
FRYE, Northrop
.
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1967 ?
The Modern Century.
1971 ?
The Critical Path
GI4NS, Herbert J.
1975
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Popular Culture and High Culture.
HALL, Stuart
Popular Arts.
H0GGA, Richard
1957 ?
The Uses of Literacy.
JACOBS, Norman (ed.)
1959 ?
Culture for the Millions - Mass Media in Modern Society,
MCLUH1N, Marshall
The Mechanical Bride
Understanding Media
MCQUAIL, Dennis
1972
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Sociology of Mass Communications.
MORIN, Edgar
1968
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New Trends in the Study of Mass Communications. Centre for
Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham.
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MYERSON, Rolf
1969 ?
Sociology and Cultural Studies: Some Problems. Centre for
Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham.
ORTEGA Y Gãsset
1932
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The Revolt of the Masses.
PACKARD, Vance
The Hidden Persuaders.
ROSENBERG, Bernard and WHITE, David
Manning
1957
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Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America.
1971
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Mass Culture Revisited.
THOMPSON, Denys (ed.)
1964
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Discrimination and Popular Culture. London: Penguin Press.
WILLIAMS, Raymond
Culture and Society
The Long Revolution
Television and Cultural Form.
S
...LARRBEE, Eric and MEYERSOHN, Rolf
1958
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Mass Leisure.
BERELSON, Bernard and ThNOWITZ, Morris
1950
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Public Opinion arid Communication.
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SENATE CO1ITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COURSE
PROPOSAL FORM
Calendar Information ?
Department Communication Studies
Abbreviation Code: cMNS' Cottrse'Nuinber:430 Credit Hours:5
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Vector: _/o—
Title of Course: Coxnmunication
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'&'cij1turl Form II
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2-3'-
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An analysis of the interrelationship between contemporary mass media productions and
western cultural values and patterns, the imagery and symbolism of the media, e.g.
the cult of the superhero, the normalization of violence will be examined.
Nature of Course
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
?
CMNS 330
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if
,
this course is
approved:
? '.
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered?
?
annually
Semester in which the course will first be offered? Spring or Summer 1978
Which of your present faculty would be available to make thd proposed offering
possible?
?
MARTIN, HINDLEY, SMYTHE, MELODY
.bjectives of the Course.,
To equip
students to apply methods learned.in
Cmns 330 and to examine the
relationship'
between symbols,-images 'and codes used in media productions and the attitudes, values
and goals of the culture: focus on North American and Western Europe societies.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements' (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
Library
Audio Visual -
?
Rental of
films or videotapes for " analysis purposes.
Space-. ?
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H.•.
Equipment
5. Approval
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Date:
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Department Chai,2
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J...., ".,
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Dean ?
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Chairman, SCUS
SCUS 73-34b:- (When completing this frtn,' for instructions see Mr'orendum SCUS 73-34a.
Attach course outline.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES
CMNS 430-5
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MEDIA AND CULTURAL FORM II
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Course Outline
Contemporary methods of analysis of cultural products -- images,
stereotypes, impact, etc. Emphasis in this course will be on applying
the methods studied in cxnns 330 to specific films, radio or television
programs, or other contemporary media products.
Weeks 1-3
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Review of definition of culture, historical survey of methods.
Weeks 4-9
?
Detailed study of application of methods of media analysis in
specific areas:
A.
content analysis
B.
cultural indicators
C.
popular culture analysis
D.
sociological analysis
E.
economic analysis
Weeks 10-13
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Application of methodology to a contemporary cultural product.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
CMNS 430-5
Readings will be assigned from texts such as the following:
BERGER, John
Ways of Sseing
BIGSBY, C.W.E.
1976 ?
Superculture, American Popular Culture and Europe.
BROWNE, Ray B.
1976 ?
The Popular Culture Explosion: Experiencing Mass Media.
CHESEBRO, James W.; and HANSHER, Caroline D.
"Communication, Values and Popular Television Series."
J. Popular Culture, VIII:3, pp.589-603.
CREAN, S.M.
Who's Afraid of Canadian Culture?
FISHWIcK, Marshall
Parameters of Popular Culture.
GOLDMAN, Albert_
1971 ?
Freakshow: The Rocksoulbluejazzsickjewblackhumorsex
Gig and Other Scenes from the Counter-Culture.
JOWETT, Garth S.
1976 ?
Film!: The Democratic Art, Toronto, Little, Brown & Co.
RISSOVER, Frederic and BIRCH, David C.
1971 ?
Mass Media and the Popular Arts.
SCHILLER, Herbert
The Mind Managers.
1976 ?
Communications and Cultural Domination.
STOCK, Brian
1973 ?
"English Canada: The Visible and Invisible Culture". Canadian
Forum, March 1973.
VIDMAR, Neil and ROKEACH, Milton
.
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1974 ?
"Archie Bunker's Bigotry: A Study in Selective Perception and
Exposure," J. of
Communication,
24 (Winter of 1974) 38.
2
WELLS, Alan (ed.)
1972
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Mass Media and Society.
WOOD, Michael
America in
the
Movies.
DENISOFF, R.Serge
1975 ?
Solid Go].dI The Popular Record Industry.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
Calendar Information
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Department:Communication Studies
Abbreviation Code: CMNS
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Course Number:434
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Credit Hours:
?
5 Vector: 2-3-0
Title of Course: The Political Economy of International Communications
Calendar Description of Course:
Various national systems of mass media and telecommunications institutions analyzed in
terms of their domestic power processes and international transfer of
mass media and telecommunications technology and products. Differential impact of the
free flow of such technology and products and the differing needs of developed and
developiig
Nature
Ot
Co,irse
countrieswill be studied.
Lecture-fi?b
1-i
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4/
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
CMNS 230 or 234.
What course (courses),
'
if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered? Normally once a year
Semester in which the
course will first be offered?
Fail 1977
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? D. W. Smythe, W. Melody
W
ObjectivesoftheCourse
To address the interaction of the international transfer of communications technology
and products, national autonomy, and international organizations and their policies.
4.
Budgetaryand
SpaceRequirements (for information
only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff ?
Noextra resources beyond basic library holdings
Library
Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
5.
Approval
Date:
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Politico-ecohomic analysis of an African system of mass communications.
Politic
o_econornic
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analgsis of the Lebanese system of mass commun-
Requi'ed reading: Dajani, Nabil IL, "Free Press or Freedom of
the Pe$s,and . the Dilema of Developing Nations".
Po
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tico-econom
communications.
j
c analysis of the Chilean system of mass
Required reading: Schiller and Srnuthe, "An End of Cultural
Colonialism?"
Mattelart, Armand, "Mass Media and the Socialism Revolution: The
Experience of Chile in Gerbner OP-cit., p.425-39.
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Structure and policy of international organizations for mass
communicatiojs : International Telecommunications Union,
Universal Postal Union, The United Nations and its Committee
• . on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, World Bank, Comsat, Inter-
sputnik, Euràvisioa and Intervision.
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Corninunicat
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on Studies 434
The Pol,itjcal Ecñomy of
In
ternational Communications
Dr. D W Smythe
Week 1:
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Analysis of the
i
nternational exchange of mass communications
media products (including international wire services and film
distribution agencies).
Required reàding: Nordenstreng and Vans, Television Traffic:
A One Way Street?
.
(Unesco).
Boyd-Ba
Guback,
'
rret,
T.H,.
Oliver,
The
International
"The World Wide
Film
News
Industry
Agencies: Strengths
and Limitations". (1974).
2 & 3:
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The institutional
and State agencies.
basis of the traffic: Multinational corporations
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Required
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Empire.
r e a
ding:5chilr
p.797146.
H.I., Mass Communications and American
Dizard,w.,. Television: A World View.
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Guback,
of the
T.N.,
American
"A Sketch
Film
of Some
InduS
Economic
jL"
(1974).
and
P
olitical Aspects
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4:
Politico-economic analysis of the British system of mass
communications.
5:
Politico-eóonomic analysis of the Chinee system of mass
communications.
Required reading: Smythe, D.W., "Mass Communications and
Cultural Revolution: The Experience of China", Gerbner, et
al, Communications Technology and Social Policy, 1973,
p.441-65.
6:
Politico-econorpjc
.coinmun.jdatiôn.
analysis of the
Y
ugoslavian system mass
Required reading: Smythe, 1). W., Peyton Place. in the Balkans:
Culturè
.
and Communications in Yugoslavia.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
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Calendar Information
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Department: Communication Studies
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cMNS
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Course Number:438
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Credit Hours:5 Vector:2-3-0
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Title of Course: Telecommunications Regulation in4oh-Amer4ca
Calendar Description of Course:
Development of the theory, and practice of regulation of the telecommunications industry
in Canada and the U.S. at federal, (CRTC, FCC), provincial and local levels. Legal and
economic basis of common carrier regulation and its application to telephone companies,
satellite carriers,,CATV firms-
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computer communications. Regulation of entry,
competition and monopoly, interconnection, investment policy, profits and prices.
Nature of Course
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Prerequisites (or special instructions):
CMNS 230-3 or CMNS 234-3
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What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: ?
None
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered? Normally once a year
Semester in which the course will first be offered? Fall 1977
Which of your present faculty would
be available
to make the proposed offering
possible? Melody, Babe.
Objectives of the Course
To develop an understanding of the theory and practice of telecommunication regulation
as a basis for a critical examination of the regulatory process and an assessment of
performance by regulatory institutions..
4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
Library
Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
5. Approval
Date:_____________________
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SCUS 73-34b:- (When
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Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
Attach course outline).
Communication Studies
438-5
Telecommunications Regulation in North America
Text Materials
Babe, R.E. Cable Television and Telecommunications in Canada (Michigan State
University,
1975)
English, H.E., Ed. Telecommunications for Canada: An Interface of Business
and Government (Toronto,
1973)
Trebing, H.M., and Melody, W.H. An Evaluation of Domestic Communication Pricing
Practices and Policies (Springfield, Virginia: GPO,
1969)
Selected Readings
Trebing, H.M. "Government Regulation of Modern Capitalism," Journal of Economic
Issues, March,
1969
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Wilcox, C. Public Policies Toward Business (Irwin,
1966)
Phillips, C.F. The Economics of Regulation (Irwin,
1969)
Kaahn, A.E. The Economics of Regulation (Wiley,
1971)
Trebing, H.M., ed. Performance Under Regulation (Michigan State University,
1968)
Trebing, H.M., ed. Essays of Public Utility Pricing and Regulation (Michigan
State University,
1971)
Gerbner, Gross, and Melody. Communications Technology and Social Policy
(Wiley,
1973)
Melody, W.H., 'echological Determinism and Monopoly Power In Communications,"
(New Orleans: AEA,
1971)
Melody, W.H., "Relations Between Public Policy Issues and Economies of Scale,"
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, January,
1975.
Irwin, M.R. The Telecommunications Industry: Integration vs. Competition
(New York: Praeger,
1971)
Melody, W.H., "Certificate Conditions in a Dynamic Economic Environment,"
(Springfield, Virginia: GPO,
1970)
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Posner, R.A., "Natural Monopoly and its Regulation," Stanford Law Review,
February, 1969.
President's Task Force on Communications Policy, Final Report (Springfield,
Virginia: GPO, 1968)
Gabel, R., "The Early Competitive Era in Telephone Communication, 1893-1920,"
Law and Contemporary Problems, Spring, 1969.
de Butts, J., "An Unusual Obligation," address to NARUC, September, 1973.
Averch, H., and Johnson, L. "Behavior of the Firm under Regulatory Constraint,"
American Economic Review, 1962.
Gainer, Walter, "The Canadian Telecommunications Industry: Structure and
Regulation," Telecommunications Study 2(a) (Ottawa: Information Canada,
1971)
Smythe, D.,, "The Re1evnce of United States Legislative-Regulatory Experience
to the Canadian Telecommunications Situation," Telecommunications Study
1(e). (Ottawa: Information Canada, 1971)
Melody, W.H., "Telecommunications Regulation: The US Experience as a Guide to
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Conference of Federal and Provincial Regulatory Bodies,
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Trebing, H.M., "Common Carrier Regulation - The Silent Crisis," Law and
Contemporary Problems, Spring 1969.
S. Winkler, ed., Computer Communications: Impacts and Implications (New York:
IEEE, 1972)
Branching Out, Report of the Canadian Computer/Communications Task Force, May, 1972.
Irwin, M.R., "The Computer Utility: Competition or Regulation," Yale Law Review,
June 1967.
Dalfen, Charles, "The Telesat Canada Domestic Communications Satellite System,"
Canadian Communications Law Review, 1969.
Melody, W.H., "Economic and Regulation of Domestic Satellites Systems," (New York:
IEEE, 1971)
Babe, R.E. "Public and Private Regulation of Cable Television: A Case Study of
Technological Change and Relative Power," Canadian Public Administration,
Summer 1974.
Melody, W.H., "The Structures Available to States in the Development of Cable
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Communications," in Cable Communications and the States (New York: 1974)
Webbink, D.W., "Should Cable TV be Regulated as a Public Utility?", Public
Utilities Fortnightly, June, 1972.
Comanor, W.S., and Mitchell, B.M., "Cable Television and the Impact of Regulation,"
Bell Journal of Economics, Spring, 1972.
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Communication Studies 438-5
Topic Outline
Week 1: Legal, economic, and social foundations for telecommunications
regulation
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the common carrier concept.
2:
Natural monopoly, economies of scale and technological determinism -
static vs. dynamic considerations.
3:
Governmental Structures of Regulation - federal, provincial (state),
local; public and private ownership.
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Characteristics of Monopoly Regulation - entry; efficiency; profit
controls; pricing policy; social objectives.
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Revenue Requirement Regulation - effects of the standard and its
methodology 'on incentives and economic behavior.
6:
Prices and Price Structures - uniform pricing; price discrimination;
monopoly pricing; social pricing; relation to,costs and cost
allocations; role of cost, demand and other factors in determining
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price policy.
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Role of Competition in Telecommunications Regulation - past, present,
future. New technology and competition policy. Domestic and international
competition.
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Interconnection and Computer/Communications - impacts on industrial and
governmental structures; the boundaries of regulation.
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Satellites and Cable Television.- impacts on industrial and governmental
structures; the boundaries of regulation.
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Differentiating Communications Facilities and Services - the boundaries
of regulatio.
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Regulation aid Policy Planning - conflicting or complementary functions.
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Comparative Analysis - Canada and U.S.
Basic Course Requirements
1. Mid-term exam in seventh week
2.1 Term Paper
3. Final Exam - optional, at discretion of instructor
