Description:
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.