History of Mass Media and Deaf Community

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

(Same as American Sign Language M121.) Lecture, three hours. Historical survey of mass media (print, film, television, and Internet) as sources and interpreters of deafness and deaf people within context of U.S. social and cultural history. Examination of historical changes in products of mass media within deaf community and ways of critiquing media sources. P/NP or letter grading.