ASL M121

Main Course

History of Mass Media and Deaf Community

Description

(Formerly numbered 121.) (Same as Disability Studies M162.) Lecture, three hours. Historical survey of mass media (print, film, television, and Internet) as sources and interpreters of deafness and deaf people within context of U.S. social and cultural history. Examination of historical changes in products of mass media within deaf community and ways of critiquing media sources. P/NP or letter grading.