Performance, Television, and Social Media

Topics

• ● Gain a deep understanding of how mass media and social media have influenced widespread perceptions, stereotypes, and definitions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic class, and how minority groups have historically protested or otherwise sought to alter media (mis-)representations of them ● Develop critical media literacies, i.e., the analytical tools and vocabularies for identifying and articulating how difference and diversity (especially race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and socioeconomic class) are depicted and enacted in television and social media ● Learn to apply core concepts of Marxist cultural studies to analyze media phenomena ● Be able to use course readings to critically think about media and new media ● Be able to articulate thoughtful, informed insights and opinions about historical and contemporary television and social media both verbally and in writing ● Become a well-educated observer and analyst of current trends and shifts in media and new media ● Build the necessary foundational skills for careers in media research, scholarship, and teaching, and/or professions in the media and new media industries. ● Become knowledgeable about the core scholarly literature and key concepts and theories of performance studies, media studies, new media studies, critical race studies, and gender studies, particularly theories pertinent to the cultural forms of television and social media

Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes