January 21/98

Analyzing Media: Communication
Technologies as Symbolic and
Cognitive Systems by James
Chesebro and Dale Bertelsen

P 96 C76 C48 1996

The authors investigate the impact of
how messages are produced or
formatted in the various media
viewing communication technologies;
not as neutral conduits but as active
and creative determinants of meaning.

Keepers of the Culture: The Power
of Tradition in Women’s Lives by
Janet Billson

HQ 1453 B55 1995

By exploring women’s lives in seven
distinct cultures — Iroquois, Blood,
Inuit, Mennonite, Jamaican, Chinese
and Ukrainian — Billson explores
how women’s roles and the balance of
power between men and women have
shifted as their communities have
moved from traditional to more
contemporary lifestyles. This analysis

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ontinuing Education’s Film

and Television Studies
program at Capilano College was
granted one of 20 international
awards from the Learning
Resources Network (LERN) in the
1997 annual awards competition.
The award winners were

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Submitted by Maureen Witney

offers insights into why some women
embrace the ideals of the women’s
movement and others are hostile towards
it.

Music in Childhood: From Preschool
Through the Elementary Grades by
Patricia Campbell and Carol Scott-
Kassner

MT 1 C226 1995

This is a comprehensive resource on
music teaching and learning for children
from preschool through grade 6. The
authors first explore the main
pedagogical methods of teaching music
to children, then address the various
aspects of music learning including

rhythm, pitch, singing, listening, moving,

playing and creating.

Bob Morris,
right,

accepts a LERN
award in Los
Angeles for
Continuing
Education’s Film
and Television
Studies program.

announced earlier this month at the
LERN international conference in San
Diego, California. Bob Morris,
Continuing Education programmer for
Film and Television Studies was on
hand to receive the award.

“By winning this award I’m very
pleased that a variety of people have

One Hundred Years of Socialism:
The West European Left in the
Twentieth Century by Donald
Sassoon

HX 238.5 $27

This study is an account of the love/
hate relationship between capitalism
and socialism in twentieth century
Western Europe and demonstrates that
a form of socialism altogether different
from the Soviet bloc’s totalitarian
system has prevailed.

Viewing Violence: How Media
Violence Affects Your Child’s and
Adolescent’s Development by
Madeleine Levine

HQ 784 M3 L48 1996

Psychologist Madeleine Levine looks
at the history of television and movie
violence and reviews 40 years of
research on the effects of media
violence. Using a developmental
approach, Levine presents the different
affects of violence on different ages.

Capilano College receives international award

been recognized for their

contribution to this program,” Bob
said. “It marks the beginning of
further expansion and development to
better serve the film industry’s
training needs.”

Selected from a field of more than
100 nominations, the program was
one of only four to receive
recognition in the area of exemplary
program development. The award
was given to the Film and Television
Studies program because it provides
services to a growing market segment
in the province. The program was
cited as unique and “as the way to
win in the twenty-first century.”

It was also noted as providing an
example of the types of programs that
other colleges and universities should
seek to develop.

Submitted by Lauren Mulholland