7 results found in 5 ms.
Page 1 of 1
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia environment and want to become more literate and critical consumers and producers of culture. Through an interdisciplinary comparative and historical lens, the course defines "media" broadly as including oral, print, theatrical,
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- literature
- literature
- comparative mass media
- communication
- modern culture
- social values
- politics
- radio
- television
- film
- digital techonology
- history
- storytelling
- advertising
- oral
- culture
- photography
- oral culture
- cultural forms
- political beliefs
- economics
- mediated communication
- class politics
- gender
- race
- identity
- behavior
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
This course offers an introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary academic field that asks critical questions about the meaning of gender in society. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions and debates in Women's and Gender Studies scholarship, both historical and contemporary. Gender scholarship critically analyzes themes of gendered performance and power in a range of social spheres, such as law, culture, work, medicine and the family.
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- special programs
- women's studies
- gender studies
- division of labor
- race
- ethnicity
- power
- authority
- gender equality
- feminism
- sexuality
- social construction
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
This section of Expository Writing provides the opportunity for students- as readers, viewers, writers and speakers - to engage with social and ethical issues that they care deeply about. Through discussing selected documentary and feature films and the writings of such authors as Maya Angelou, Robert Coles, Charles Dickens, Barbara Ehrenreich, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jonathan Kozol, and Alice Walker, we will explore different perspectives on a range of social problems such as poverty, homelessness, and racial and gender inequality. In assigned essays, students will have the opportunity to write about social and ethical issues of their own choice. This course aims to help students to grow significantly in their ability to understand and grapple with arguments, to integrate secondary print and visual sources and to craft well-reasoned and elegant essays. Students will also keep a reader-writer notebook and give at least one oral presentation. In class we will discuss assigned films and readings, explore strategies for successful academic writing, freewrite and critique one another's essays. Satisfies Phase I and CI Writing Requirements.
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- writing and humanistic studies
- social issues
- poverty
- race
- gender
- injustice
- homelessness
- environment
- service learning
- maya angelou
- rachel carson
- robert coles
- charles dickens
- betty friedan
- john f. kennedy
- martin luther king
- jr.
- jonathan kozol
- abraham lincoln
- amy tan
- alice walker
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
This section of Expository Writing provides the opportunity for students- as readers, viewers, writers and speakers - to engage with social and ethical issues that they care deeply about. Through discussing selected documentary and feature films and the writings of such authors as Maya Angelou, Robert Coles, Charles Dickens, Barbara Ehrenreich, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jonathan Kozol, and Alice Walker, we will explore different perspectives on a range of social problems such as poverty, homelessness, and racial and gender inequality. In assigned essays, students will have the opportunity to write about social and ethical issues of their own choice. This course aims to help students to grow significantly in their ability to understand and grapple with arguments, to integrate secondary print and visual sources and to craft well-reasoned and elegant essays. Students will also keep a reader-writer notebook and give at least one oral presentation. In class we will discuss assigned films and readings, explore strategies for successful academic writing, freewrite and critique one another's essays. Satisfies Phase I and CI Writing Requirements.
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- writing and humanistic studies
- social issues
- poverty
- race
- gender
- injustice
- homelessness
- environment
- service learning
- maya angelou
- rachel carson
- robert coles
- charles dickens
- betty friedan
- john f. kennedy
- martin luther king
- jr.
- jonathan kozol
- abraham lincoln
- amy tan
- alice walker
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
This course focuses on developing and refining the skills that will you need to express your voice more effectively as an academic writer. As a focus for our writing this semester, this course explores what it means to live in the age of mass media. We will debate the power of popular American media in shaping our ideas of self, family and community and in defining social issues. Throughout the semester, students will focus on writing as a process of drafting and revising to create essays that are lively, clear, engaging and meaningful to a wider audience.
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- writing and humanistic studies
- expository writing
- analyzing
- mass
- media
- voice
- academic
- writing
- self-discovery
- critical thinking
- communicating
- audience
- drafting
- revising
- essays
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
This course provides the opportunity for students-as readers, viewers, writers and speakers-to engage with social and ethical issues they care deeply about. Over the course of the semester, through discussing the writing of classic and contemporary authors, we will explore different perspectives on a range of social issues such as free speech, poverty and homelessness, mental illness, capital punishment and racial and gender inequality. In addition, we will analyze selected documentary and feature films and photographs that represent or dramatize social problems or issues. In assigned essays, students will have the opportunity to write about social and ethical issues of their own choice. This course aims to help students to grow significantly in their ability to understand and grapple with arguments, to integrate secondary print and visual sources and to craft well-reasoned and elegant essays. Students will also keep a reading journal and give oral presentations. In class we will discuss assigned texts, explore strategies for successful academic writing, freewrite and respond to one another's essays.
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- writing and humanistic studies
- writing on contemporary issues
- social issues
- ethical issues
- contemporary
- culture
- culture shock
- urban and environmental crises
- issues of race and gender
- media saturation
- language and representation
- writing
- workshop
- uncertainty
- confusion
- assimilating
- assimilation
- current
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
The reading and writing for this course will focus on what it means to construct a sense of self and a life narrative in relation to the larger social world of family and friends, education, media, work, and community. Readings will include nonfiction and fiction works by authors such as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Andre Dubus, Anne Frank, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Alice Walker. Students will explore the craft of storytelling and the multiple ways in which one can employ the tools of fiction in crafting creative nonfiction and fiction narratives.
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- writing and humanistic studies
- identity
- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
- identity
- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- dan
7 results found.
Page 1 of 1