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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

COM 4265 - Media, Culture and Identity

Credits: 4
Formerly: Feminist Media Studies
This course brings together works from feminist scholars around the world in order to map the contemporary feminist and/or post-feminist context as well as feminized popular culture by examining everything from Pinterest and pregnancy apps to books, such as Fifty Shades of Grey, or TV shows, such as Keeping Up With the Kardashians. This class takes very seriously, in accordance with feminist media studies and critical cultural studies as fields of inquiry, the study of “low” cultural texts, which are traditionally considered to be feminized, and are thus marginalized. Ultimately, this course will give students a foundation in feminist media studies and feminist media theory by considering issues of passion, bodies, and labor as related to the production, circulation, and consumption of mediated texts.
Prerequisite(s): COM1020 and COM2401 or COM1020 and COM2801.
Fulfills: (D) Diversity and (W) Writing Intensive Requirements.
Note: No prerequisites for WGS students.