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  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None

    Content, treatment, and effects of women and minority group coverage in television, newspapers, magazines, popular music and film.

    (This course was formerly numbered 04:567:334)

    Learning Objectives

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

    • Understand how media shape culture and society, becoming more critical consumers of media.
    • Recognize how the economic structuring of the media relates to media content; understand the psychological and political effects of stereotyping.
    • Learn about actions and policies that encourage more diversified media representations of women, people of color and other historically underrepresented populations.