Yousman, Gender, Race, and Class in Media 6e
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Course Projects
Part III: Reading Media Texts Critically
1. Design a Wikipedia Page: This project asks students to design a Wikipedia page
2. Creating Prezi/PowerPoint Presentations: Students create research-based
presentations using either Prezi or PowerPoint around the suggested topics below. The
associated readings from the text are designed to get students started on the topic.
From there, they will need to gather more scholarly and popular press research to build
the content of their presentations. The topics are fairly broad, so students can narrow
the focus as they deem relevant and interesting. Place students in five groups and
3. Portrayal in the Arts: This assignment asks students to compare and/or contrast the
claims made in the readings to the portrayal of these concepts in the visual arts,
auditory arts, film, literature, drama, and so on. It builds on the Identifying Claims/Facts
assignment from Part I.
Ask students to select (1) a single art form that will allow them to comment on 12–15
claims/facts or (2) multiple art forms. Instruct them to write a paper explaining how the
Yousman, Gender, Race, and Class in Media 6e
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4. Creative Writing: This assignment asks students to illustrate 12–15 claims/facts from
class materials through a short story, poem(s), play, or song(s) of their own creation. It
builds on the Identifying Claims/Facts assignment from Part I.
In creative writing, students may support or contradict the claims/facts. The claims/facts