MEDIA LITERACY AND MISINFORMATION IN EDUCATION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Compare the concepts of individual, structural, and institutional bias and how these biases shape and have shaped stories in media and scholarship on the topic of education Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze texts related to education for message, audience, and intention Audience: Undergraduate 3. Compare how data and truth are presented in education stories and how information about education is deployed in media Audience: Undergraduate 4. Relate digital citizenship and information literacy to the practice of democracy as it pertains to education Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate improved summarizing, synthesizing, and analytical skills in academic speaking and writing across a range of writing genres Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Compare the concepts of individual, structural, and institutional bias and how these biases shape and have shaped stories in media and scholarship on the topic of education Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze texts related to education for message, audience, and intention Audience: Undergraduate 3. Compare how data and truth are presented in education stories and how information about education is deployed in media Audience: Undergraduate 4. Relate digital citizenship and information literacy to the practice of democracy as it pertains to education Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate improved summarizing, synthesizing, and analytical skills in academic speaking and writing across a range of writing genres Audience: Undergraduate