RDL 585 - Critical Media Literacy

Expanding the definition of reading to include cultural as well as written texts, this course is designed to teach methods for analyzing media and determining its authenticity, reliability and perspective. This course will outline how old, new, mass and social media work with each other to influence readers. Educators and reading specialists enrolled in this course will produce multimedia projects and critique existing media to reveal ways in which media is produced and reproduced in culture. The course will also explore how gamification, mobile technologies, apps, and social media can both impact and improve reading instruction.

(Cr: 3