critical thinking through media literacy and media arts. Film criticism. Cinema studies. Study of mass media. Internet. Interactivity. Installation. Entertainment. globalization and media. Understanding forms of communication. Responsibility. Ethics. Consumerism. Relationships between maker, subject, viewer and money. Language. Fiction. propaganda, visual metaphor, truth myth, persuasion oral history narratives, myth as history, documentary
"Works of art, unlike those of science, have no practical goals in any material sense. Art is a meta-language, with the help of which people try to communicate with one another; to impart information about themselves and assimilate the experience of others."
