Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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JOUR 4130 - Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media
The course explores the portrayals of women, people of color, gender identity, religion, politics and the ways they intersect in all forms of news and strategic communication content. Students examine issues of diversity and inclusion in the production and the consumption of journalistic content, as well as the content itself and those who produce it.
Requisites: JOUR 2311 or 2150
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Bridge: Diversity and Practice
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe and discuss the wide-ranging importance of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, economic status and other diverse perspectives in our society in news, advertising and PR content, and entertainment media.
- Students will be able to apply strategies for diverse and inclusive journalism and appreciate journalists’ social responsibility to include underrepresented voices.
- Students will be able to define and recognize implicit biases and explore their own personal biases.
- Students will be able to describe the ways in which the concepts of gender, race, and class as socio-culturally constructed categories that are built upon, but not defined by, biological and material/socio-cultural differences.
- Students will be able to reflect on the influence of socio-cultural categories on journalistic production, media policy, infrastructure, and reception.
- Students will be able to practice intercultural competence by asking complex questions about members of other cultures, interpreting intercultural experiences from multiple perspectives, and interacting supportively with culturally different others.
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