MDST 237 Media and Identity
This course examines the relationship between mediated forms of communication and the formation of individual and social identities, with a particular emphasis on identities related to race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. Through a combination of lecture, screenings, and discussion, students will examine the ways in which popular media serves to construct, maintain, reproduce and/or challenge patterns of representation that shape our social and cultural understanding of identity. Prerequisite: WRIT 113, First-Year Academic Writing.