Teaching
CARGC faculty and postdoctoral fellows teach courses in Global Communication at the Annenberg School. Find out what courses we are offering this semester and view the archive of previously taught courses below. If you would like to request a syllabus for any of the courses, please get in touch with the instructor.
Spring 2026 Courses
Critical Approaches to Media and Migration
COMM 7580
Instructor: Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Ph.D.
This course explores the role of media texts and technologies in shaping our understandings of migration. Topics include media about people’s migration (e.g. TV series, documentaries, YouTube series portraying stories about migrants); media for migration control (e.g. drones, data surveillance, state propaganda); and migrant uses of media (i.e. how peoples on the move mobilize media technologies to facilitate such movement or to advocate for themselves). Though our focus is primarily on the politics of migration in the 21st century, we locate these within the historical legacies of slavery, colonialism, and neoliberalism. Throughout the course, we draw from critical inter-disciplinary scholarship in sociology, geography, cultural studies, and ethnic studies, to inform our understandings of media, migration, race, and class in the contemporary historical moment.
Media and Migration in the 21st Century
COMM 3510
Instructor: Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Ph.D.
This seminar examines how media represent the lives and journeys of people who migrate from the Global South. We explore how migrant stories are framed and circulated across different media networks and we address how public perceptions of migrants shift based on factors such as gender, race, class, and disability. We also consider the affordances and pitfalls of heightened visibility when migrants turn to new media to represent themselves and advocate for rights and recognition. Course materials will include different types of non-fiction media (documentaries, news reports, online content, social media posts) created by a variety of stakeholders (e.g. corporate newsrooms, governments, NGOs, migration activists).
Past Courses
CARGC faculty and fellows teach a wide variety of courses on global communication topics.