COM 3355 - Media, Culture and Identity

Credits: 4

Formerly: COM4265
The primary goal of this course is to develop a critical awareness and understanding of the interplay between media, culture, and identity. This course examines and draws connections between media representations, issues of diversity and inclusion in media production, and media influences on audiences and users within different social, cultural, political-economic, and historical contexts. In this course, we will consider issues of power as related to gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and bodies/disability, in addition to other identities, groups, and cultures. We will do this by analyzing popular culture, whether advertisements and television shows or social media, films, and video games, through the lens of intersectional feminist media studies.
Fulfills: D in LS Core