Institutional Learning Outcomes: Indigenous Knowledges and Ways Students examine contemporary representations of Indigenous people through mass media and popular culture. They develop techniques for evaluating, analyzing, and understanding the construction of Indigeneity as it is communicated through film, television, and other media. Students examine racial stereotypes and the role of media and social media in perpetuating, but also, importantly, in challenging stereotypes and cultural appropriation. Students critically examine the impact of the media's portrayal of Indigenous peoples as they analyze historical tropes of misrepresentation of the Indigenous Peoples within popular culture through a range of media texts, including television, movies, advertisements, and social media.
Institutional Learning Outcomes: Indigenous Knowledges and Ways Students examine contemporary representations of Indigenous people through mass media and popular culture. They develop techniques for evaluating, analyzing, and understanding the construction of Indigeneity as it is communicated through film, television, and other media. Students examine racial stereotypes and the role of media and social media in perpetuating, but also, importantly, in challenging stereotypes and cultural appropriation. Students critically examine the impact of the media's portrayal of Indigenous peoples as they analyze historical tropes of misrepresentation of the Indigenous Peoples within popular culture through a range of media texts, including television, movies, advertisements, and social media.
