Mar 29, 2024  
2008-2009 
    
2008-2009 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOC 312 - Gender, Race and Class in Media


Instructor
Kaufman

This course explores issues relevant to gender, race, and class in media. The course begins with the premise that all knowledge is constructed. As with other institutions, the media play a critical role in the construction of knowledge, particularly that related to our ideas about gender, race, and class. This course will mainly emphasize the representation of gender, race, and class in media.

Provides major credit in Sociology and a distribution credit in the social sciences. Counts towards the concentration in ethnic studies and in gender studies.