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  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:206 or 04:567:212, Open only to Major Corequisites: None

    Long-form video journalism storytelling developed over a significant period of time teaching students critical thinking, research, writing skills and various production techniques.

    Learning Objectives

    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    • Apply skills learned in the classroom to an off-campus or professional media environment.
    • Describe and relate subject-related theory to the practical applications learned
    • Innovate tools and technologies appropriate for media professions
    • Research, produce, and critique documentary and news magazine broadcast
    • Develop production skills such as one-man band filming techniques, editing with AVID software, and writing scripts, arranging shoots, interviewing and identifying characters, and developing stories
  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:215 Gender, Race, and Class in the Media Corequisites: None

    This course examines how race is produced, represented, and contested through media institutions, technologies, and cultural practices. Drawing on critical race studies, media studies, and cultural studies, the course explores how media shapes racial meaning, sustains hierarchies of power, and serves as a site of resistance and transformation. Students will analyze news, film, advertising, digital platforms, and emerging technologies to understand how race operates across local, national, and global contexts.

    Learning Objectives

    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    • Explain race as a social, political, and historical construction rather than a biological fact, and identify how whiteness operates structurally within media institutions and industries.
    • Analyze media texts using key theories of representation, ideology, and power, and connect media representations to broader systems of empire, capitalism, and state power.
    • Critically assess stereotypes, controlling images, and racialized narratives across media forms, and examine how technology, algorithms, and surveillance reproduce racial inequality.
    • Evaluate media activism and antiracist interventions critically and historically.
    • Produce original, well-supported analyses of media and race in written and/or creative forms.
  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Status, Open only to Major Corequisites: None

    Surveys and critiques of social science research on news, journalists and the news media.

  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic Corequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic

    Contemporary topics in media studies will be offered on an ad hoc basis.

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  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic Corequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic

    Contemporary topics in media studies will be offered on an ad hoc basis.

    Learning Objectives

    As Appropriate for the Topic

  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic Corequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic

    Contemporary topics in media studies will be offered on an ad hoc basis.

    Learning Objectives

    As Appropriate for the Topic

  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic Corequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic

    Contemporary issues in media studies will be offered on an ad hoc basis.

    Learning Objectives

    As Appropriate for the Topic

  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Status, Open only to Major Corequisites: None

    Analyzes debates about media and cultural globalization, and theories about international media.

    Learning Objectives

    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    • Understand topics and debates about media and cultural globalization.
    • Critically evaluate theories and arguments in the study of international media.
  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic Corequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic

    Topics in creative media practice will be offered on an ad hoc basis.

    Learning Objectives

    As Appropriate for the Topic

  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic Corequisites: As Appropriate for the Topic

    Topics in creative media practice will be offered on an ad hoc basis.

    Learning Objectives

    As Appropriate for the Topic