Requires written permission of instructor, chair, and dean. May be repeated for credit. Requires written permission of instructor, chair, and dean. Media practice in either classroom or professional setting supervised by faculty or approved professional. Units awarded on per project basis by advisor or chair.
Students design and implement a research project in an area of media studies.
This course uses the problems media creates through its portrayals of gender and race and its reliance on sexual and violent content to demonstrate how social science methods can be used to assess performance, experiences, and effects. An introduction to the study of popular culture that is interdisciplinary in its approach. Popular culture is understood here to mean those areas of cultural production and consumption made and consumed by mass publics.