ETHICS OF ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA
Develop skills for viewing and interrogating entertainment media through the lens of ethical theory and to articulate their own ethical stance on a diverse range of media, including documentary film, sports entertainment, reality television, and digital media. By approaching ethics from a media studies perspective, ask questions about how media are produced, how audiences are created and engaged, how communities and cultures are represented, and how we should respond to these different forms of media and the ethical questions that they raise.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain core ethical theories Audience: Undergraduate 2. Build arguments for moral positions and think about them critically Audience: Undergraduate 3. Use ethical theories to analyze moral issues within contemporary entertainment media Audience: Undergraduate 4. Distinguish between different moral dilemmas as they relate to the production, consumption, and analysis of media texts Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain core ethical theories Audience: Undergraduate 2. Build arguments for moral positions and think about them critically Audience: Undergraduate 3. Use ethical theories to analyze moral issues within contemporary entertainment media Audience: Undergraduate 4. Distinguish between different moral dilemmas as they relate to the production, consumption, and analysis of media texts Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027