Understand key concepts and theories in communication, cultural and critical studies. Provide framework for understanding the interdisciplinary nature of communication and culture studies To explore structures of meaning making and critically examine how communication patterns, language and media structure our reality, culture and society Understand and critically engage with topics such as rhetoric, metaphor, tradition, industry, market and use that to critique prevalent forms of interpersonal and intercultural communication, nonverbal and visual communication. Examine how communication and media create social realities and how the switch from dictatorship to democracy shapes tastes and creative productions
