JOMC 422 Race, Gender and the Media

This course is designed to create an Educational Experience that will help students develop critical thinking about race, gender and diversity issues within journalism, sports, advertising and entertainment. It will examine relationships between the media and social constructions of race and gender in America and globally. Students will examine how global/national systemic racism and domestic and foreign media represent race, gender, audience’s interpretation of such portrays, and how critical analyses of media culture and content can be cultivated to become media literate. This course is ACE 8 and 9 approved.