women+and+media

=WST2??: Women & Media= This course explores the representation of and production by women in regards to various media.
 * WST250a: Women & Media: History of Film
 * WST250b: Women & Media: Contemporary Film
 * WST250c: Women & Media: Advertising
 * WST250d: Women & Media: Video Games
 * WST250e: Women & Media: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

Competencies:
USE EDUCATION TERMS THAT DEMONSTRATE CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING ASSIGNMENT/ELEMENTS FOR TAGS
 * 1) Demonstrate understanding of multiple definitions of the concept //woman//.
 * 2) Illustrate how expectations of both media and women are culturally determined.
 * 3) Explain the processes that shape media production and reception over time.
 * 4) Outline the international history of the course’s subject media.
 * 5) Speculate on how media interact with one another.
 * 6) Describe the current status of the course’s subject media on an international level. (IV)
 * 7) Analyze how women employ and complicate media production and reception. (II, III, IV)
 * 8) Analyze how various issues of diversity impact and complicate the course’s subject media.

Course Outline:

 * I. Definitions of //woman//.
 * II. History of subject media.
 * III. Classic media texts.
 * IV. Texts of media from multiple cultures.
 * V. Current media texts.
 * VI. Texts that stretch borders—DO WE NEED TO BE MORE SPECIFIC IN REGARDS TO DIVERSITY?.