<p>Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 3. Provides students with necessary critical framework and vocabulary for reading and interpreting visual, aural, dramatic, and/or digital representations and performances. Analysis of diverse multimedia texts to think critically about the politics of representation and the construction of individual and collective identities. Focus on developing, drafting, and revising written and multimodal compositions. Minimum of 15 pages of revised text required in addition to regular writing exercises. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.</p>

English Composition

Combining rigorous, inclusive pedagogy with opportunities for co-curricular activities—including research, internships, and community engagement—the College provides students with diverse learning experiences that helps them thrive, become critical thinkers, and transform society.

College of Letters and Science

Container 1

The unit is the chief resource for writing and English language instruction through composition, discipline-focused, and professional writing courses; and offers training for graduate writing instructors.

Writing Programs

General Education — Visual & Performance Arts Analysis & Practice (Arts & Humanities)

ENGCOMP 7W - Media Culture and Critical Inquiry

Media Culture and Critical Inquiry

Develop a deeper understanding of different approaches (feminist, queer, etc.) to the cultural construction of gender, sexuality, race, etc.

Investigate and critique the ways power operates through representations of sex, gender, race, class and sexualities in popular texts.

Participate in a writing community that collaborates, generates, drafts, and refines ideas and viewpoints.

Learn to read and analyze visual, dramatic, and/or digital texts, representations, and performances.

Critically explore texts created by and representative of diverse cultures and subcultures.

Engage in conversations that thoughtfully incorporate and consider differing perspectives, frameworks, and experiences.

Practice composing and revising traditional and multimodal texts.

General Catalog

Media Culture and Critical Inquiry

ENGCOMP 7W

5 units