INF STD M121
Introduction to Media Literacies
Also listed as EDUC M121: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
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(Same as Education M121.) Seminar, four hours. Exploration of relationships between media, technology, and popular culture. Students guided to analyze media representations, question process of normalizing dominant ideologies, and create counter-hegemonic media messages. Through application of critical media literacy framework, students expand notions of literacy to be more inclusive of all types of texts; and deepen their abilities to question power of word, image, and sound-bite to represent social and environmental injustice. Letter grading.
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