Studies the competencies necessary for analyzing mass media codes and conventions and interpreting the meanings and ideologies generated by texts in TV, film, radio, internet, and other industries, especially regarding how race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, citizenship, and other social, cultural, and political markers are constructed. Examines the impetuses for and implications of these constructions, including the ways in which they are revised, resisted, and reproduced. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPUS requirement.

Degree requirement — Critical Learning: AIM, Critical Learning: SHB, Critical Perspectives: S, Equity and Power: EPUS

1 unit — Lewis

Offerings

Term	Block	Title	Instructor	Location	Student Limit/Available	Updated
Fall 2024	Block 4	Critical Media Studies	Heidi R. Lewis	East Campus Community Center 202	25 / 3	12/22/2024
Summer 2025	Block C	Critical Media Studies	Heidi R. Lewis	See Prof. 003	25 / 24	12/22/2024