Complementing
any major, the gender and media minor is a cross-unit, interdisciplinary
undergraduate minor offered jointly by the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS)
and the School of Communication and Information (SC&I). The Department of
Women's and Gender Studies is the sole SAS contributor to courses included in
the minor. At SC&I, the Department of Journalism and Media Studies is the
primary contributor to the minor, offering the majority of course options. Two
additional SC&I undergraduate courses, one in the information technology
and informatics (ITI) curriculum and the second in the digital communication, information, and media (DCIM) curriculum are course
options for the gender and media minor.
The gender and media minor provides a course of study designed for students
interested in a combination of theory and practice perspectives on the
representation and production of gender in the media. Students will apply
technical skills as media producers with the ability to add their own critical
voices and unique perspectives. Students will also demonstrate critical
thinking skills that enable them to critique and improve current conditions of
media production and consumption. They will articulate, create, examine,
inform, and improve systemic and individual power dynamics of the contemporary
landscape for gender and media.
Students
will be introduced to the minor through a foundational course that offers a
shared vocabulary for analyzing issues of power and representation within the
media. They will then have the choice of taking two electives in media
production as well as two electives in critical media/feminist theory. Finally,
students will apply their skills and knowledge of gender and the media in the completion
of a capstone project in a capstone course that offers internship, service
learning, and multimedia project options.
Students
are required to complete 18 credits for the minor. Courses can not be
double-counted for the gender and media minor and for any other major or minor
in the School of Communication and Information or the Department of Women's and
Gender Studies.
Students may declare the minor upon completion of one of the foundational courses in the program with a C or better.
Requirements for the Minor
Note the following departments represented below:
01:988 - Women's and Gender Studies
04:189 - Communication and Information
04:547 - Information Technology and Informatics
04:567 - Journalism and Media Studies
One
Foundational Course (3 credits)
Select one of these:
01:988:202 Gender, Culture, and Representation (3)
04:567:334 Gender, Race, and Class in the Media (3)
Two
Production Courses (6 credits)
Select one of these:
04:189:251 Strategic Presentation Methods in Digital Media (3)
04:567:324 News Reporting and Writing (3)
And complete this required course:
01:988:200 Gender, Digital Media, and Social Curation (3)
Two
Conceptual/Theoretical Courses (6 credits)
Select one of these:
04:567:274 Consumer Media Culture (3)
04:567:380 Media and Social Change (3)
04:547:340 Gender and Technology (3)
and one of these:
01:988:255 Gender, Art, and Society (3)
01:988:257 Gender and the Body: Representation and Pornography (3)
01:988:258 Gender, Race, and Contemporary Art (3)
01:988:259 Homosexuality and Visual Culture (3)
01:988:317 Gender and Consumption (3)
01:988:376 Theories of Women and Film (3)
01:988:396 Topics in WGS: Gender, Race, and Technoculture (3)
One Capstone Course (3 credits)
The capstone is the same course whether taken through Women's and Gender Studies or Journalism and Media Studies. Students should select the department based on their primary focus for the minor.
01:988:499 Capstone in Gender and Media (3)
04:567:499 Capstone in Gender and Media (3)
