FILM 330 Special Topic in Gender and Media Units: 3.00
This course examines the role that media plays in the cultural and social construction of gender, thinking critically about questions of representation, authorship, technology, and activism. As a special topic course, the focus of the class is subject to change from year to year. Students should consult the Department's website for updated information.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or (registration in a GNDS Plan and GNDS 120/3.0 and GNDS 125/3.0).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply the critical intersections of gender, nationality, race, class, sexuality, and ableism to complicate understandings of media.
- Examine cultural texts through theories, methods, knowledges, and sociocultural practices expressed by minoritized scholars and communities
- Articulate the role of media in hegemonic formations of gender in written and oral forms