Overview
Description
How the media creates and challenges social constructions of gender and race, with a focus on women and minorities as media professionals and audiences.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- explore the relationship between media and a diversity of groups in global society.
- reflect on and demonstrate an increased awareness of how society and the media present images of gender and race.
- recognize patterns in media coverage of men, women, and minority groups.
- discuss how stereotyping evolves and is supported and challenged by the media.
- identify diverse media audiences and explain how content affects them.
- use advanced analytical thinking to become more critical consumers of media content.
- demonstrate a familiarity with social scientific approaches used to study media, gender and race.
- demonstrate enhanced media literacy by developing a greater appreciation of the media’s cultural influences.