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Media Studies -Course Outline

Grade Eleven University English

Course Description:

This course emphasizes knowledge and skills that will enable students to understand media communication in the twenty-first century and to use media effectively and responsibly. Through analysing the forms and messages of a variety of media works and audiences responses to them, and through creating their own media works, students will develop CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS, aesthetic and ethical judgement, and skills in viewing, representing, listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

PROBABLE UNITS OF STUDY:

* Communication Theory and the Key Concepts of Media Literacy
* Newspapers
* Horror Movies
* Television: What's inside the box?
* Folklore/Storytelling in a Box
* The Alpha State
* How to Sell A War
* Popular Culture
* The World of Print
* Novel Study: Fahrenheit 451
* The Human Story and the Cinema: The Dawn of the Eye
* Advertising - Gender Stereotypes/Tobacco/Claims and Appeals/Magazine Study/Branding
* Violence in the Media
* The Wired World
* Debating
* Ongoing writing and language study
* Note taking skills from teacher/video/presentations
* Paragraph/article writing

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