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Gender, Race, Class, and the Media (COM 334)

Term: 2025-2026 Fall Semester

Faculty

Paige Chapman
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Leslie M Robison
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Schedule

Tue-Thu, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (8/27/2025 - 12/11/2025) Location: FCSTA PLLRD 130

Description

American mass media are powerful in teaching their audiences about gender, race, and class, and in the process they often also teach sexism, racism, and classism, as well as other prejudice-based phenomena such as homophobia, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia. This course introduces students to how and why this happens, what the effects on the audiences are, and how students can resist and perhaps even change incorrect and damaging media-constructed realities in both their personal lives and as they become media professionals themselves.