Topic 1: Gender and Communication. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 2: Women and Media Culture. Introduction to the study of women's relations to media culture. Three lecture hours and two and one-half screening hours a week for one semester. Additional prerequisite: For radio-television-film majors: upper-division standing and the following coursework, with a grade of at least C in each course: Radio-Television-Film 305, either 314 or 316, and six additional semester hours of lower-division coursework in radio-television-film; for others, upper-division standing and consent of instructor.

Topic 3: Girls' Media and Culture Studies. Introduction to the critical analysis of women and media culture. Focuses on commercial media texts mass produced in the United States, and explores the dominant strategies used by the magazine, film, and broadcasting industries to represent women and women's issues as well as to attract women consumers. Examines how women participate in media culture via their roles as consumers and audiences, as well as fans of particular cultural texts. Explores how women have developed alternative media economies by creating their own cultural texts and practices. Only one of the following may be counted: Radio-Television-Film 359S (Topic: Girls' Media and Culture Studies), 359S (Topic 6), Women's and Gender Studies 324 (Topic 3), Women's and Gender Studies 345 (Topic: Girls' Media and Culture Studies).

Topic 4: Gender and the News. Historical and contemporary exploration of gender and the news. Examination of the role of marginalized gender groups in producing news and the construction of gender within news texts. Only one of the following may be counted: Journalism 348D, Women's and Gender Studies 324 (Topic 4), 324G. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Additional prerequisite: For journalism majors, Journalism 310F with a grade of at least B-; for others, six semester hours of upper-division coursework in women's and gender studies.