Advanced Topics in Creating Counter-Oppressive Content

This course will present an overview of developing a counter-oppressive popular media and technology framework that includes films, TV shows, comic books, video games, music, weblogs, streaming services, social network platforms, and other forms of content. It will serve as a container for student work on creating and disseminating content that counters oppression is its various forms. Course format and evaluation: seminar, with final presentation and project that employs this media framework.

Intended audience: all degree programs.

Relates to Thresholds: 2. Prophetic Witness and Work, 6. Theology in Culture and Context 7. Educating for Wholeness and Liberation 8. Embodied Wisdom and Beauty. Relates to MFC: 4. Social Justice in the Public Square 7. Leads the Faith into the Future.

Auditors excluded.