UISS 116P - Media Literacy

Course Cross-listed with CMM 210P
3 credit(s) High Impact Practice: Collaborative Learning
This course introduces students to critical engagement with media. Utilizing a multiperspectival and interdisciplinary approach, students will examine implications and issues of media industries from business, political, governmental, advertising and marketing perspectives and media content and effects from the multidisciplinary field of cultural studies, including gender, queer, feminist, and sociological perspectives, and through the perspectives of psychology, health, and wellness. Media literacy draws on humanities disciplines where students critically analyze media content as texts and the social sciences by examining the role of media in reinforcing or contesting existing structures of power in society. Students will also analyze ideological themes and values represented in media content from an intersectional perspective and learn how to evaluate and engage in media activism.

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