Lead Faculty: Dr. Sara-Ellen L. Amster
Course Description
Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and communicate information from a variety of media forms. In this course, students investigate message design strategies, the effects of media consumption and information fatigue on human behavior, and how bias and economic forces influence media presentations. Course topics include meaning construction and matching, information authentication, the effects of visual and rhetorical structures on interpretation and the effects of media convergence on message distribution and reception.