GWSS 1004 is also offered in Summer 2023
GWSS 1004 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2021 | GWSS 1004 Section 001: Screening Sex: Visual and Popular Culture (33796)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 151
- Enrollment Status:
Open (37 of 40 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Film history and theory; feminist critique of popular culture.
- Class Description:
- This is an introductory critical media literary course that approaches media analysis using feminist critique. The field of feminist media studies pays close attention to the ways that gender, race and sexuality are employed in popular culture and media throughout history to develop and reaffirm particular popular understandings of representation, group identification, subjectivity and citizenship. In addition, to analyzing the structure and politics of mainstream media representations this course will expose its students to forms of media that were produced in resistance to and outside of mainstream culture, to illustrate the possibilities and limitations of more socially conscious representations. We will explore the following major concepts: popular culture, spectatorship, technology, feminist critique, genre, the gaze and new media. Students will gain the skills needed to analyze and critique various forms of popular media to then engage in more rigorous and complex media analyses at a higher level.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33796/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 August 2013
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2021 Gender, Women, & Sexuality Std Classes