Minor in Media, Sex and Gender (Minors)

Students on Summer 2019, Fall 2019, or Spring 2020 requirements MDGNDRMIN

Requirements

The minor requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.

Introduction to Media. One (1) course:
- MSCH-C 101 Media
MSCH-C 101 Media
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the role media play in our lives-at work, at school, among family members, friends, and lovers-and analyzes pressing issues in media and society today, such as privacy, globalization, and convergence.
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Introduction to Media, Sex and Gender. One (1) course:
- MSCH-C 211 Screening Gender and Sexuality
- MSCH-C 216 Social Scientific Perspectives of Gender and Media
- MSCH-C 218 Sports, Media and Society
- MSCH-C 247 Screen Cultures
MSCH-C 211 Screening Gender and Sexuality
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Critically examines how gender and sexuality are mediated through screen and audio-visual media (including film, video, television, radio, internet) and their cultural contexts. Using humanities approaches, topics might focus on popular media production; various genres, movements, and media cycles; specific cultural and historical contexts; impacts of technological change. Screenings may be required.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 203 or MSCH-C 211.
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MSCH-C 216 Social Scientific Perspectives of Gender and Media
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the representation of women in the media and analyzes women's creative work as media producers from a social scientific perspective. The course will include lecture and discussion of areas of critical debate: visual representation across media platforms, women's employment in media industries; women as an audience/consumer group.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of MSCH-C 216 or TEL-T 192.
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MSCH-C 218 Sports, Media and Society

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examination of the social and financial relationships between sports organizations, media and society. Study of the social implications of sports media content in light of economic connections between sports media and college and professional sports teams, including how television contracts influence media coverage and how organization-based media influence audience perceptions.

MSCH-C 247 Screen Cultures

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Draws on theories of screen-based spectatorship and the spatial, material, and performative aspects of screens to present a historically-grounded comparative analysis of the relationship between screen technologies and cultural screen practices. Focuses on public and urban screens, mobile screens, touch screens, and interactive screen-based installations.
Advanced Media, Sex and Gender Electives.
1. Media School Electives. One (1) course:
  - MSCH-F 370 Women Directors
  - MSCH-F 375 Race, Gender, and Representation
  - MSCH-F 420 Topics in Media History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - MSCH-J 326 Fashion, Beauty, and Lifestyle Media
  - MSCH-S 310 Sex in the Media
  - MSCH-V 470 Issues in Media (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  MSCH-F 370 Women Directors
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focuses on women directors in cinema, from the silent era to the present day. Explores the presence of women directors in American and European cinema, the connection to feminist theory in cinema, and the challenges confronting women who wish to direct films.
  MSCH-F 375 Race, Gender, and Representation
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Construction of race and gender identities across a range of media. Emphasis on the power of sound/image representations to shape and contest ideas about race and gender. Topic varies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 412, JOUR-J 375, or MSCH-F 375.
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  MSCH-F 420 Topics in Media History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Media historiography, topics in national media history, national and international movements and trends. Topic varies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 420 and MSCH-F 420.
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  MSCH-J 326 Fashion, Beauty, and Lifestyle Media
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the world of media related to fashion, beauty, and lifestyle (FBL). Focuses on cultural influence, media history, sustainability, and the future of FBL. Includes analysis of bodies of knowledge associated with past and present expressions of human behaviors, beliefs, and experiences related to FBL.
  MSCH-S 310 Sex in the Media
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores the role and portrayal of sex and sexuality in media and examines in detail the potential social and psychological effects of exposure to sexual content in the media.
  Repeatability
  Credit give for only on of MSCH-S 410 or MSCH-S 310.
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  MSCH-V 470 Issues in Media
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Seminar exploring new developments and advanced research in media.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
2. Additional Electives. Two (2) courses:
  - Additional course from the Media School Elective list above
  - AAAD-A 222 Black Women Artists
  - AAAD-A 430 The Cinema of Africana Women
  - GNDR-G 310 Representation and the Body
  - GNDR-G 325 Gender and Celebrity Studies
  - GNDR-G 330 Looking Like a Feminist: Visual Culture and Critical Theory
  - INTL-I 425 Gender: International Perspectives
  - SOC-S 422 Constructing Sexuality
  AAAD-A 222 Black Women Artists
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines black female creativity in the United States from colonial times through the present. Studies art and creativity under slavery, nineteenth-century pioneering artists, racial and gender stereotypes in visual culture, the Harlem Renaissance, WPA art, civil rights and Black Power movements, feminist art, abstraction, conceptual and performance art, vernacular art, postmodernism, and black feminist futurism.
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  AAAD-A 430 The Cinema of Africana Women
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Historical and critical overview of films produced by African American women from the 1940s to the present. The course emphasizes how black women filmmakers combine their creative abilities with a desire to capture dominant issues that affect black women's lives in America.
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  GNDR-G 310 Representation and the Body
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Analysis of scholarship concerned with how the body is perceived, represented, and symbolically charged. This course examines concepts that include sexed bodies, desiring bodies, corporeality, body politics, and sociological bodily rituals. Thematically, the course investigates exterior/interior, solid/fluid, and sex/gender distinctions critical to discussions of the body.
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  GNDR-G 414 Gender and Celebrity Studies
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Celebrity theory concerns the way that cultural narratives and identities conform to or depart from societal scripts. Course examines both historical moments and transnational phenomena, guided by interdisciplinary discussions on media, sociology, queer studies, race and class, all in discussion with gender and media theory.
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  GNDR-G 330 Looking Like a Feminist: Visual Culture and Critical Theory
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Advanced study of feminist film theory which examines gender in popular film from a variety of perspectives. Examines how cinema works as a “technology of gender,” how film constructs subject positions and identities, and what these constructions can tell us about how gender structures our culture.
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  INTL-I 425 Gender: International Perspectives
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examination of gender issues from international and interdisciplinary perspectives.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  SOC-S 422 Constructing Sexuality
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A sociological examination of a variety of forms of human sexuality from the perspectives of social constructionism and politics of sexuality.
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Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
1. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
2. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
3. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
4. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
5. Exceptions to minor requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.