COM 460 - Advanced Media Literacy

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Bryant University

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Session Cycle: Spring Yearly Cycle: Every Other This class explores media literacy as an effective learning tool for teachers and parents, specifically as they attempt to strike a balance between traditional school curricula and the influences of a mediated, consumer culture. This class is a research class, which means there will be a heavy writing, research, and presentation component, as well as primary and secondary curriculum development. Some of the general topics to be discussed include the following: determining methods for incorporating media literacy skills into the "kinderculture," exploring measurements for determining quality media content, examining paradigm shifts in media education over the past five or six decades. and parental media education. Students will study the effects of media consumption as a systemic issue, with a main focus on children, teens and critical pedagogy. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Communication Department Course Attributes: Communication Concentration, Communication Minor, Liberal Arts Elective, Communication Major

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bryant.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 232-6000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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