Learning Materials Women in the Media
The media is selling young people the idea that girls’ and women’s value lies in their youth, beauty, and sexuality and not in their capacity as leaders. Boys learn that their success is tied to dominance, power, and aggression. Encouraging media to value people as whole human beings, not gendered stereotypes.
READ: Aulette textbook chapters 6 & 7
View:
1. Women Representing Women (Links to an external site.)
2. Media PPT 2021 (attached)
1. Super Heroes (Links to an external site.)
1. Toys (Links to an external site.)
1. What the media teaches children (Links to an external site.)
1. Power in anger (Links to an external site.)
1. The Bechdel Test (Links to an external site.) Shape, arrow Description automatically generated
Journal 1- Gender and advertising:
Your assignment is to write a reflective journal style essay. In this essay you need to write a minimum of 800 words following elementary English grammar, punctuation and organization style you should be comfortable with in the university. The journal style is unique in that you take what we have been reading/discussing and you relate the material to person life experience. The goal is to enhance learning through reflection. The concepts that we are discussing in the course are ones that we readily see in our daily life and can be very personal. There is no right or wrong answers that you can writing in your journal. I am looking to see if you understood the basic issues we are addressing and that you are able to relate the issue to your own experience.
If you have completed the assigned journal entry in a sincere manner, you will receive full credit for the assignment. That credit will be lessened only if your entries are unacceptably brief or intentionally do not address the topic. The journal rewards effort and participation. It provides an opportunity to succeed no matter where you are starting from if you sincerely dedicate yourself.
Journal entries are used as tools for student reflection. By consciously thinking about and comparing issues, life experiences, and course readings, students are better able to understand links between theory and practice and to generate justifiable, well-supported opinions. This kind of writing assignment is meant to be interactive, as students engage with ideas and experiences that bring about questions, comparisons, insights, criticisms, speculations, and tentative conclusions.
For today’s assignment please discuss what was significant about the material that we are covering in class related to how women are portrayed in the media, movies, advertising, newspaper articles, etc.
Journal 2-pay equity:
Your assignment is to write a reflective journal style essay. In this essay you need to write a minimum of 800 words following elementary English grammar, punctuation and organization style you should be comfortable with in the university. The journal style is unique in that you take what we have been reading/discussing and you relate the material to person life experience. The goal is to enhance learning through reflection. The concepts that we are discussing in the course are ones that we readily see in our daily life and can be very personal. There is no right or wrong answers that you can writing in your journal. I am looking to see if you understood the basic issues we are addressing and that you are able to relate the issue to your own experience.
If you have completed the assigned journal entry in a sincere manner, you will receive full credit for the assignment. That credit will be lessened only if your entries are unacceptably brief or intentionally do not address the topic. The journal rewards effort and participation. It provides an opportunity to succeed no matter where you are starting from if you sincerely dedicate yourself.
Journal entries are used as tools for student reflection. By consciously thinking about and comparing issues, life experiences, and course readings, students are better able to understand links between theory and practice and to generate justifiable, well-supported opinions. This kind of writing assignment is meant to be interactive, as students engage with ideas and experiences that bring about questions, comparisons, insights, criticisms, speculations, and tentative conclusions.
For today’s assignment please discuss what was significant about the materials we are discussing related to women in the workplace and issues of Pay Equity. For example, should everyone doing an equivalent type of job be paid the same amount of money? There are laws in the US that require equal pay for equal work, but on average women in the US are paid 20% less than men. Over the course of a lifetime this low pay as a very large consequence.
