Media and Social Justice

Catalog description

Media and Social Justice: This course counts as a Humanities credit and will explore through the use of media the different social justice issues and US policy that are current in the news during the semester. The course will analyze through written and video stories the similarities and differences through articles and video stories between main stream media and alternative media as well as the different angles to a story told by different news agencies. Students will gain understanding of different social justice issues via documentaries and articles for an in depth look at selected social justice topics.