Course Schedule

TLS 515A – Critical Media Literacy: Analysis, Production, and Practice

GIDP: Second Lang. Acquisition & Teaching (SLAT)

This course examines media as sites of cultural production, power, and possibility. Using socio-cultural, media literacy, and digital literacy frameworks, students will develop critical stances toward media analysis, media production, teaching pedagogy, and everyday practices. In the process, they will interrogate how media shape knowledge, identity, and participation in the digital age. Course content engages connected learning, participatory culture, and instructional design as frameworks for understanding and transforming media literacy in education settings. Students will examine implications for pedagogy, research and assessment in first and second language contexts. Through collaborative projects, students will produce and critically evaluate media while building digital literacies relevant to their own teaching and research.