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.