COMM336: Gender and Media Representation

Level
Undergraduate
School
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Subject
Credits 3

This course is devoted to the critical analysis of representations of gender in normative mass media content. It explores the ways in which popular cultural representations reinforce, create, and challenge societal gender roles through the examination of various mediated forms from advertising and television to film and broadcast news coverage. Prerequisite: COMM130 or permission of instructor.