MSCR2450 (Sound Cultures) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Explores the intersection of sound, media, and culture. Introduces students to theories and methods to analyze media technologies, cultural practices, and politics of sound. Examines how considerations of power shape the ways people create, amplify, and use sound in media, with an ear toward identity, representation, and complex relationships of technology and culture. Engages a variety of sound media, sonic cultural practices, and sound technologies through a variety of in-class activities and projects. Offers students an opportunity to apply these ideas to highly relevant, real-world personal, political, and cultural questions about sound, media, and power in everyday life.
Data updated October 2026.