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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MCO 230 Media and Race

3 Credit(s) DPDS
This course is designed to provide students with critical and analytical thinking skills by examining the role the mass media play in the construction of social and cultural ideas about race and ethnicity. Using textbooks, scholarly articles and specific samples of media will study the portrayal of race and racial identities in American mass media. The analysis will be chronological in order to highlight the changes in the quantity and quality of media  representation for four American racial groups: African-Americans, Asian-­ Americans, Latinos, and Middle-Eastern Americans. This course satisfies the DPDS Gen Ed Requirement. Three lecture hours per week.
Prerequisites: Completion of 30 credits.