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Media And Gender (COM-336)

Semester:	Fall 2020
Number:	0108-336-001
Instructor:	Timothy Novak
Days:	Tuesday Thursday 9:25 am - 10:40 am
Note:	Online, Both synchronous and asynchronous
Location:	Online
Credits:	3
Status:	This Course is Filled to Capacity
Course Materials:	View Text Books
Description:	Students will study American media representations of gender. Students will learn the basics of gender studies and apply gender studies theories to mainstream and alternative media representation (including television, film, print media, and online/digital media). Media will be considered to be both mirrors and potential shapers of dominant gender conceptions. (Learning Goals:CO;Distribution Reqs:Social Sciences)
Learning Goals:	By the end of the course, successful students will be able to:• Articulate the ways in which media and communication reinforce and reproduce prevailing patternsof unequal power and privilege, particularly in terms of gender and sexual identity.• Read, understand, and evaluate relevant media and communication scholarship, and engage in criticaldebates about how this work contributes to our understanding of the constructed nature of gender.• Write and speak effectively from a scholarly perspective in order to identify, compare, and evaluatethe ways in which culturally and historically specific media texts construct understandings of gender.• Employ analytically and critically the concepts, theories and methods covered in class as a means todevelop a deeper understanding of how communication practices function as a site where conceptionsof gender and identity are both reproduced and contested. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here.

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