Elective Course: Cultural and New Media Studies
This course focuses on understanding media and associated freedoms of cultural expression and the press for learning, teaching, and public pedagogy. Media studies is a dynamic discipline tailored to exploring youth culture, popular culture, and education through various concepts or techniques of articulation, framing, regulation, remediation, and representation. In addition to understanding culture, media, and the process of meaning-making, this course focuses on making and managing media across formats, cultural expression, and civic engagement. Making minimal distinction among (the) media of, on, and in education, the course provides a survey of media studies and new media with an emphasis on media education and literacy. Media education and literacy are among the most relevant challenges to “official” knowledge and knowledge production, and represent key movements in the sociology of curriculum. Thus, this course balances educational practice with ethical, theoretical, and legal aspects of the field. Together, the modules emphasize the design of curriculum for teaching media studies and the integration of media literacy across curricula.