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Apr 20, 2024
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CRIM 256 - Media and Crime 3 hours
This course will help students think about how TV and other media train us to think about crime and criminality in particular ways. We will examine the construction of crime in a range of media including news produced for television, radio, print, and internet distribution; fictional TV and film; and documentary. Students will learn to assess media pieces for perspective, assumptions, bias, and verifiability. The class will learn how to fact check news from a variety of media. Images of criminality and innocence will be analyzed. We will examine both production and reception of images, considering cognitive biases and what viewers and readers take away from images they consume. The course has a heavy focus on writing, with students watching a variety of popular media and producing analyses.
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