CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Laura Wait/SUNY
Last modified by: Stephanie Thomas/SUNY
Composed: 12/09/2008 11:16 AM
Curriculum Committee Approval Date:
Modified: 01/06/2016
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Course Number: (prefix) CUL (number) 224114 ESC 2.0 Course number: COMM-4015 COMM-4015Women, Girls, & the Media

Name: Women, Girls and the Media
Datatel Title: (30char) Women, Girls and the Media

Area Coordinator: Cindy Conaway Department Code: 10MC Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: UPPER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? YES
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 7. HumanitiesFully or Partially: f
GenEd Area 2: Fully or Partially:



Pre-registration Information?
Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)
Spring 1, Summer, Fall 1		Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
Spring 1, Summer, Fall 1
First Term Offered: 2009FA (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
Last Term Offered in Print Version:
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Description: In this course, students will examine the portrayals of women and teenage girls in the media. Each student will choose which particular media to examine, choosing to examine magazines, newspapers, television, film, popular music and/or the Internet along with the advertising that supports so many of these. Students may pursue such topics as race and ethnic issues, class issues, working women v. motherhood, body images of teen, younger and older women, disability, and sexuality. They may focus on American culture or on the global needs of women.

For students new to the field of media studies, this course provides an opportunity to examine media particularly in terms of how women and girls are portrayed by the culture industries.

For those students who have taken courses such as Visual Literacy, Television and Culture, American Cinema, Images of Women in Western Civilization or other media or gender-related courses, they can further pursue the topics they considered in those courses. These students will be expected to examine images of women in a deeper and more nuanced way than they did in those courses.

Students concentrating in communications or media fields have the opportunity to research those fields and particular woman leaders involved in them or issues that women in those media face.

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Humanities.

Generic:



Major Course Area
Communications Humanities and Cultural Studies		Minor Course Area
Arts: Visual and Performing, Communications and Media, Critical Thinking, Gender Studies, Multicultural and Diversity Studies, Women's Studies		SLN Disciplines
Communications
Additional Course Requirements
 Undergrad Certificate Association:


1


Meets General Education Requirement

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Archive Course:

genedcode for dpplanner: 7^f~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: Humanities