Yousman, Gender, Race, and Class in Media 6e
SAGE Publishing, 2021
Course Projects
Part VI: Growing Up With Contemporary Media
1. 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
2. Nielson Ratings: Have students conduct a mini-survey of their friends, family, and/or
3. Teaching Unit: This assignment asks students to prepare a teaching unit on the
sexualization of females in pop culture that includes 12–15 claims/facts from the class
material.
Instruct students to create a teaching unit on the sexualization of females in pop culture
to freshman college student. The teaching unit should provide illustrations/examples for
each of the claims/facts and may contradict or support them. They may be examples