SW 327 - American Indians & Mass Media

The Native Peoples of North America have been the subjects of a virtual war of misinformation since first contacts with Europeans. American mass media still cast images of Indian people that serve to trivialize their concerns and confound their attempts to remain culturally distinct and sovereign peoples. Students in this course will appraise the process and effects of stereotyping of Indian people in the mass media and learn of the responses of today’s Indian media professionals. Issues of cultural dominance and new media technologies will also be examined. Students will evaluate media materials through written research and oral presentations and produce media products to counter the problems created for Indian people by the mass media.

Credits: 3
Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)