MEDIA AND NATIONAL IDENTITY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: COM ARTS 250 or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the nation as a unit that is in large part constituted by media, and be able to explain how this act of constitution occurs Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Critically examine how lines of belonging and exclusion are drawn by the media Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Critically reflect upon ways in which media become a primary battleground for competing notions of national identity Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess multiple ways in which access to various identities is in some cases restricted by media to certain consumers or citizens Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Identify and pursue opportunities to contribute to the scholarly analysis of national identity Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the nation as a unit that is in large part constituted by media, and be able to explain how this act of constitution occurs Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Critically examine how lines of belonging and exclusion are drawn by the media Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Critically reflect upon ways in which media become a primary battleground for competing notions of national identity Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess multiple ways in which access to various identities is in some cases restricted by media to certain consumers or citizens Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Identify and pursue opportunities to contribute to the scholarly analysis of national identity Audience: Graduate