Prerequisites: None

Exam Type: No Exam

This seminar examines the role of mass media depictions and imagery in shaping perceptions within our increasingly fast-paced and turbulent modern era. It situates this loaded imaging process within an appropriate social and historical context while considering how the quest to maintain a normalized national identity competes with law and evolving notions of culture, race, and gender. Such imaging-commonly a dual process involving contestation between a group’s projected image, and one being projected upon them-will be discussed through law, literature, journalism, and visual media. It further considers such relevant and compelling issues as immigration, citizenship, diversity, propaganda, and the ultimate role of journalism/news media.

Note: This course is not available for cross-registration.