schedule last updated: September 08, 2008 10:08 PM -0400

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.
 

• Course overview, review of syllabus, introductions
• Discussion of representation of gender
• Graduation cap and gown letter (pdf document)
• Graduation cap and gown article - part 1
• Graduation cap and gown article - part 2
• Movie Posters (Power Point presentation)

• 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

• Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture (article online - pdf document)
• The Symbolic Annihilation of Women by the Mass Media (article online - pdf document)

• Syllabus Quiz due at the beginning of class
• Reading Quiz #1 due at the beginning of class

• Gender Representation in Notable Children's Picture Books: 1995-1999 (article online)
• Sex role stereotyping in the Sunday comics: a twenty year update (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)

• Reading Quiz #2 due at the beginning of class
• Please bring in a children's book to examine in class today (there is a children's book section in the Pine Manor Library)

• Watch and discuss portion of "Mickey Mouse Monopoly:  Disney, Childhood and Corporate Power" in class today (run time:  about 23 minutes)
• Discuss questions on Mickey Mouse Monopoly handout

Have read for today:

• Gender roles in animated cartoons: has the picture changed in 20 years? (article online)
• What if the Energizer Bunny were female? importance of gender in perceptions of advertising spokes-character effectiveness (article online)

• Reading Quiz #3 due at the beginning of class

• Requirements for Short Assignment #1 discussed in class today
• Watch and discuss "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 KgKilling Us Softly 3 handout
• Watch and discuss portion of "Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol" in class today (run time: about 11 minutes)
• Discuss questions on Spin the Bottle 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)

• Reading Quiz #4 due at the beginning of class
• Please bring in a magazine to examine in class today

• Watch and discuss portion of "Class Dismissed:  How TV Frames the Working Class" in class today (run time: 6 minutes)
• Discuss questions on Class Dismissed handout

Have read for today:

• Gender Representation in Television Commercials: Updating an Update (article online)
• The Portrayal of Women in U.S. Prime Time Television (article online - Word document)
• Equal time in prime time? Scheduling favoritism and gender on the broadcast networks (article online - Word document)

• Reading Quiz #5 due at the beginning of class

Have read for today:

• You look mahvelous: an examination of gender and appearance comments in the 1999-2000 prime-time season (article online)
• Aging on television: messages relating to gender, race, and occupation in prime time (article online - Word document)
• Gender roles on prime-time network television:  demographics and behaviors (article online - Word document)

• Reading Quiz #6 due at the beginning of class

• Discussion of Short Assignment #1 findings
• Watch and discuss "Constructed by the Gaze" in class today (run time: 5 minutes) - click here to watch video online
• Watch and discuss "The Male Gaze" (run time: 7 and a half minutes, click here to watch video online)
• Watch and discuss "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls" in class today (run time: 38 minutes)
• Discuss questions on Reviving Ophelia handout

Have read for today:

• Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (article online)
• Reading Guide to Mulvey on Cinema and Psychoanalysis (article online)

• Short Assignment #1 due at the beginning of class

• On the rag on screen: menarche in film and television (article online)
• Maintaining the double standard: portrayals of age and gender in popular films (article online)
• The "best actress" paradox: outstanding feature films versus exceptional women's performances (article online)

• Reading Quiz #7 due at the beginning of class

• Requirements for Short Assignment #2 discussed in class today

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)

• Please bring in a newspaper to examine in class today
• Reading Quiz #8 due at the beginning of class

• Watch and discuss "She Says:  Women in News" in class today (run time: 60 minutes)

• Discussion of Short Assignment #2 findings
• Watch and discuss portion of "Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games" in class today (run time: about 12 minutes)
• Discuss questions on Game Over handout

Have read for today:

• An examination of violence and gender role portrayals in video games: implications for gender socialization and aggressive behavior (article online)

• Short Assignment #2 due at the beginning of class

• Watch and discuss "Generation M: Misogyny in Media and Culture" in class today (run time: 54 minutes)
• Discuss questions on Generation M handout

• Watch and discuss part one of "Color Adjustment" in class today (run time: 52 minutes)
• Review for midterm exam
• Study guide for the midterm discussed in class today

Have read for today:

• Exoticization - Women of Color (website)
• Setting the Record Straight About Latino Images (article online)
• Femme Noire: Dangerous Women of Color in Popular Film and Television (article online - Word document)
• Race and beauty: a comparison of Asian and Western models in women's magazine advertisements (article online)

• Reading Quiz #9 due at the beginning of class

• Watch and discuss part two of "Color Adjustment" in class today (run time: 36 minutes)
• Midterm exam
• Requirements for final paper assignment discussed in class today

• Watch and analyze a film or TV show relating to female police officers in the media in class today (see IMDB.com suggestions for movies with the keyword "female cop")

Have read for today:

• Take-charge female cops, lawyers now wear the pants (article online)
• The Gun and the Badge:  Hollywood and the Female Lawman (article online - pdf document)
• Re-presenting Women Executives: Valorization and Devalorization in U.S. Business Press (article online - pdf document)
• Gender stereotypes of leaders: an analysis of the contents of obituaries from 1974 to 1998 (article online)
• Psychologically Imploding Females with Guns (article online - pdf document)
• Faux Power (website)

• Reading Quiz #10 due at the beginning of class

• Watch and discuss "Running Mate: Gender and Politics in the Editorial Cartoons" (run time: 47 minutes) or "Drawing Conclusions: Editorial Cartoonists Consider Hillary Rodham Clinton" in class today (run time: 26 minutes)

Have read for today:

• Sex, Lies, and Videotape: An Analysis of Gender in Campaign Advertisements (article online - Word document)
• The effects of message theme, policy explicitness and candidate gender (article online - Word 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)

• Reading Quiz #11 due at the beginning of class
• 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)

• Requirements for Short Assignment #3 discussed in class today

Have read for today:

• Images of women's sexuality in advertisements: a content analysis of Black- and White-oriented women's and men's magazines (article online)
• Making Her Invisible: Cultural Representations of Lesbianism and the Lesbian Body in the 1990s (article online - pdf document)
• Out of the Mainstream:  Sexual Minorities and the Mass Media (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)

• Reading Quiz #12 due at the beginning of class

• Discussion of Short Assignment #3 findings
• Watch and discuss "Off the Straight & Narrow:  Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & Television" in class today (run time: 63 minutes)
• Discuss questions on Off the Straight and Narrow handout
• Watch and discuss "Further Off the Straight & Narrow: New Gay Visibility on Television, 1998-2006" in class today (run time: 46 minutes)
• Discuss questions on Further Off the Straight and Narrow handout

• Short Assignment #3 due at the beginning of class

• Female Athletes (Power Point presentation)
• Watch and discuss "Playing Unfair:  The Media Image of the Female Athlete" in class today (run time: 30 minutes)
• Discuss questions on Playing Unfair handout

Have read for today:

• He's a Laker; She's a "Looker": The consequences of Gender-Stereotypical portrayals of male and female athletes by the print media (article online)
• Gender Stereotyping in Televised Media Sport Coverage (article online)

• Reading Quiz #13 due at the beginning of class

• Invisible mothers: a content analysis of motherhood ideologies and myths in magazines (article online)

• Reading Quiz #14 due at the beginning of class

TOPIC:  PORTRAYALS OF WOMEN IN MUSIC

• Watch and discuss "Dreamworlds 3:  Desire, Sex and Power in Music Video" in class today (run time: 55 minutes)

Have read for today:

• Spice World: constructing femininity the popular way (article online - pdf document)

• Please watch at least 10 music videos on youtube.com prior to class today and be prepared to discuss your critical observations about portrayals of gender in them in class - be prepared to cite at least one you think has positive portrayals and one that has negative portrayals

• Watch and discuss "Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity" in class today (run time: 82 minutes)
• Discuss questions on Tough Guise handout

Have read for today:

• The Portrayal of Men's Family Roles in Television Commercials (article online)
• Advertising and the Construction of Violent White Masculinity (article online - pdf document)

• Reading Quiz #15 due at the beginning of class

• Review of extra-credit vocabulary in class today
• Course evaluations
• Watch and discuss "Michael Kimmel on Gender" in class today (run time: 55 minutes)

Have read for today:

• Even in Modern Media, the Picture is Still the Same: A Content Analysis of Clipart Images (article online)
• "I'll take gender differences for $1000!" domain-specific intellectual success on "Jeopardy." (article online)
• Girls Can Be Doctors And Boys Can Be Nurses: Surfing for Solutions to Gender Stereotyping (article online)

• Reading Quiz #16 due at the beginning of class

• Discussion of final paper findings/conclusions in class today
• Watch and discuss "Beyond Killing Us Softly" in class today (run time: 34 minutes)
• Take extra-credit vocabulary quiz in class today

• Final paper due

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