Instructor of Record
This course provides an introduction to the world of data and how data can be used to answer questions that interest journalists, strategic communicators, and students of social sciences in general. This course emphasizes the critical connections between data analysis, which involves statistical processing of raw data, and visualization strategies that facilitate the faithful, accurate, and compelling delivery of data insights to targeted audiences. It offers a combination of conceptual training, instruction in specific tools for data analysis and visualization, and the opportunity to put new skills to use in a final project.
An introduction to the roles and functions of print, film, electronic, and digital media in multicultural America. This is a course open to students with all majors. In this course, students examine the cultural history of racial and ethnic minorities and explore the way these groups are portrayed in the media.
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This course explores the impact of and barriers to access to information on the lives of minoritized communities in the United States. The course introduces the contemporary information society from a sociological perspective. In this course, we explore issues relating to information inequalities, differences, or "digital divides" in the U.S. with particular attention to minoritized groups in the Northern Midwest, including African-Americans, Hmong, Latinos/as, and Native Americans.
This is the core introductory course for majors in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The course explores how mass media are organized and function in modern society, including their technological foundations, economic and political underpinnings, and social implications. It covers fundamental concepts in mass communication, journalism, and strategic communication, and provides training in communication research methods.
This course introduces core theories in mass communication with a focus on conducting communication research. It covers various research approaches and methodologies, particularly in studying the use and effects of mass communication on individuals and societies. The course examines who is affected by media, the nature and extent of these effects, the different types of media content involved, and the circumstances that make these effects more or less likely.
This course is an introduction to cultural anthropology, offering a comparative cross-cultural examination of social organization, economics, politics, language, religion, ecology, gender, and cultural change. It also includes instruction in qualitative research methods, such as ethnography and in-depth interviews.