GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN MASS COMMUNICATION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop an understanding of the different definitions of gender that currently exist. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Compare the difference between gender and sexuality. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Describe the way that sexuality is connected to our social and personal identities. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Examine how the mass media represent gender and sexuality. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Determine the ways in which gender and sexuality inform the practice of media production. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Demonstrate how gender and sexuality impact media reception. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Articulate the way media activism campaigns specifically address issues of gender and sexuality. Audience: Undergraduate 8. Apply the knowledge gained in the course in order to design a media activism campaign that focuses on gender, sexuality, or both. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop an understanding of the different definitions of gender that currently exist. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Compare the difference between gender and sexuality. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Describe the way that sexuality is connected to our social and personal identities. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Examine how the mass media represent gender and sexuality. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Determine the ways in which gender and sexuality inform the practice of media production. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Demonstrate how gender and sexuality impact media reception. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Articulate the way media activism campaigns specifically address issues of gender and sexuality. Audience: Undergraduate 8. Apply the knowledge gained in the course in order to design a media activism campaign that focuses on gender, sexuality, or both. Audience: Undergraduate