schedule last updated: February 06, 2008 10:50 PM

NOTE: Schedule may be subject to change as the semester progresses.  Any changes will be announced in class and you will receive notice via the class listserv as well. 

Please get in the habit of referring to this schedule online regularly.
 

• Preliminary meeting 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, introductions
• Hand out "The Maligned Wolf" reading

• Course overview, review of syllabus
• Discussion of reaction papers on "The Maligned Wolf" reading

• Make sure I have your email address and the last 4 digits of your social security number so I can add you to the listserv and gradebook
• Reflection paper on "The Maligned Wolf" due (not graded)

TOPIC:  VISUAL COMMUNICATION

• Gender in Film Posters

Have read for today:

• Introduction to Semiotics (click through the entire presentation)

• An Interpretive Study of Visual Cues in Advertising (article online)

• Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture (article online - pdf document)

• Syllabus Quiz due at the beginning of class
• Reflection Paper 01 due (Topic:  Why do you take photographs?  What function do photographs play in your life?)
• Bring in a print advertisement to analyze in class

• Photography Power Point

TOPIC:  PORTRAYALS OF CLASS & OCCUPATION IN THE MEDIA

Have read for today:

• Social Class and Television (website)
• Ad lib:  The Advertised Librarian; The Image is the Message (article online)
• The Media and Your Career Choice: Can't Wait to Become a Brain Surgeon?  Great!  But in the Meantime, Don't Let the Media Play With Your Mind (article online)

• Have the student information form on our class website filled out by today (you will get 5 points for filling this out by today)

• Reflection Paper 02 due (Topic: Choose one or two advertisements that portray someone in an occupation.  Analyze the visuals associated with the person in the ad.  What does this say about the person's status in society?  Bring the ads you analyze to class today.)

TOPIC:  WORDS AND IMAGES

Have read for today:

• To Be Announced

• Take the Keirsey Temperament Sort II and the Jung Typology Test in class today

TOPIC:  PORTRAYALS OF OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE MEDIA

Have read for today:

• Comfortable Strangers:  The Making of National Identity in Popular Photography in "Reading National Geographic" (p. 1-14)
• Becoming America's Lens on the World:  National Geographic in the Twentieth Century in "Reading National Geographic" (p. 15-46)

• Reflection Paper 03 due (Topic:  Write a reflection about your thoughts on the readings)

• Trip to library as a class to get a refresher on your research skills/introduce you to the Pine Manor library

• Submit top 3 choices of photographers for midterm paper research

• No class today

• Watch "Class Dismissed:  How TV Frames the Working Class" in class today (run time: 63 minutes)

• Discuss questions on Class Dismissed handout

• Reflection Paper 04 due

• Watch "Meshes of the Afternoon"

• Watch part one of "Color Adjustment" in class today (run time: 52 minutes)

• Reflection Paper 05 due
• If you have a suggestion or comment about the class so far, please have the mid-semester feedback form filled out online by today (this is optional)

• Presentations of Photographers

• Midterm paper due

• Presentations of Photographers continued

• Watch part two of "Color Adjustment" in class today (run time: 36 minutes)

Have read for today:

• Gender and racial stereotypes in daily newspaper comics: a time-honored tradition? (article online)
• Image of Asian Americans and Asians in US Media (article online)
• In Bruce Lee's Shadow: Asians Struggle to Create New Hollywood Images (article online)

NOTE:  Advising week is THIS week - If you are my advisee, please make sure you sign up for an advising appointment with me by clicking this link (follow the instructions at the top of the page)

• Reflection Paper 06 due

• Hispanics deserve bigger piece of the Hollywood pie (article online)
• Study finds almost no Hispanics, Asians among network news correspondents (article online)

NOTE:  Advising week is THIS week - If you are my advisee, please make sure you sign up for an advising appointment with me by clicking this link (follow the instructions at the top of the page)

TOPIC:  PORTRAYALS OF GENDER IN THE MEDIA

• Watch "Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women" in class today (run time: 34 minutes) - click here to watch video online
• Discuss questions on Killing Us Softly 3 handout

Have read for today:

• The portrayal of women's images in magazine advertisements: Goffman's gender analysis revisited (article online)
• Gender stereotyping in medical advertising: much ado about something? (article online)
• Sex, Lies and Advertising (article online - pdf document)

NOTE:  Advising week is THIS week - If you are my advisee, please make sure you sign up for an advising appointment with me by clicking this link (follow the instructions at the top of the page)

Have read for today:

• Front-page news coverage of Women declines again in 1996 (article online)
• Media Coverage of Women and Women's Issues (article online)
• Teaching Women in the News: Exposing the "Invisible Majority" (article online - pdf document)

NOTE:  Advising week is THIS week - If you are my advisee, please make sure you sign up for an advising appointment with me by clicking this link (follow the instructions at the top of the page)

• Reflection Paper 07 due

• To Be Announced
  (possible "catch-up" day)

• Watch "Off the Straight & Narrow:
  Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & Television" in class today (run time: 63 minutes)
• Discuss questions on Off the Straight and Narrow handout
• Final paper topic handed out in class

• Reflection Paper 08 due

• Begin Film Analysis in class

• Film Analysis continued in class

• Course evaluations
• Film Analysis continued in class

• Discussion of final paper findings/conclusions in class today

• Final Paper due

• Note: We don't have a final exam for this class - your final paper serves as your "final"