Understanding Media Literacy through Popular Culture and Mediated Environments

Catalog description

Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce media messages through a variety of mediated environments. Class time will consist of a blending of lectures and class discussions that will illustrate how popular culture has altered a generation of children while at the same time looking at how it is understood and perceived by them. Further, we will explore how media literacy can be integrated into classroom lessons to increase motivation and cultural awareness.