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Course Master
FIRSTBRIDGE IN GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS (CM1099)
Credits
4 credits
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Masculinity has come under increased critical scrutiny recently, with particular attention being paid to the relationship between social, sexual and political norms of masculinity and changes in media and popular culture. This course aims to interrogate this relationship in several ways. First, we will analyse how various masculinities are represented and constructed in media and popular culture and establish theoretical foundations for our study. Second, we will explore the gendering of media forms and formats and consider media technologies and institutions as technologies and institutions of gender. Third, we will reflect on our own historical positioning as gendered subjects in order to give more complex accounts of masculinity’s current formations. Media and popular culture of the year 1984 will provide a lens for the first two parts of the course, before we turn our critical gaze back to the present to challenge claims of the inevitability of masculinity and media technology in 2020.
Term
Fall 2020
Discipline
CM (Communications)
Type
CCI
Can be taken twice for credit?
Off
Level
Undergraduate
CAMS ID
41402
Code
CM1099FB3
Learning Outcomes
A critical understanding of the importance of gender to media and popular culture.
A foundational knowledge of key terms, concepts and areas of research in media and cultural studies and gender studies.
An improved capacity to produce thoughtful and critical analyses of images, objects and structures of media and popular culture.
An improved capacity to thoughtfully and critically produce multimedia content. 
Exploring and Engaging Difference: Students will think critically about cultural and social difference; they will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities that can relate to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion, or class (CCI 3).
Civic and Ethical Engagement: Students will demonstrate awareness of ethical considerations relating to specific societal problems, values, or practices (historical or contemporary; global or local) and learn to articulate possible solutions to prominent challenges facing societies and institutions today so as to become engaged actors at various levels in our interconnected world (CCI 4).
Information Literacy: Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field. 
Life at University: Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context. 
Name
MASCULINITY IN MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
Section
FB3
Start Date
Tuesday, September 22 2020
End Date
Monday, December 21 2020
Start Month
September
Exam Date
Monday, December 21 2020 - 17:30
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