RACE, ETHNICITY AND MEDIA

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically analyze the differences and similarities between the concepts of race and ethnicity within media and communication contexts. Audience: Graduate 2. Evaluate the hidden power and privilege of whiteness and its operation in everyday life and mediated representations. Audience: Graduate 3. Assess the meanings and implications of multiculturalism and color-blind ideology for social interaction and media production. Audience: Graduate 4. Examine the varied contexts in which race and ethnicity function as organizing social constructs across media and society. Audience: Graduate 5. Develop a research project related to race, ethnicity, and media, and conduct a pilot study to explore the topic empirically or conceptually. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically analyze the differences and similarities between the concepts of race and ethnicity within media and communication contexts. Audience: Graduate 2. Evaluate the hidden power and privilege of whiteness and its operation in everyday life and mediated representations. Audience: Graduate 3. Assess the meanings and implications of multiculturalism and color-blind ideology for social interaction and media production. Audience: Graduate 4. Examine the varied contexts in which race and ethnicity function as organizing social constructs across media and society. Audience: Graduate 5. Develop a research project related to race, ethnicity, and media, and conduct a pilot study to explore the topic empirically or conceptually. Audience: Graduate