Women’s Empowerment: A Critical Media Justice Approach

a Discovery Core Experience

The course may be taken as either a BCORE 115 (Social Sciences) or a BCORE 117 (Arts & Humanities) course. It also fulfills the DIVERSITY graduation requirement.

About This Course

This course will explore media justice work through a feminist lens that seeks women’s empowerment through communication strategies and media tools to subvert media representation and marginalization.

Through community-based research/community service -learning projects, students will work with community partners on digital media empowerment and/or promote media advocacy for policy/social change.

Additionally, students will personally select and conduct an interview of a “Women of Influence” to bring full circle mentorship and leadership objectives of the course .

Dr. Mo West (she/her/hers)

School of Nursing & Health Studies

About Dr. West

  • University of Washington Seattle, WA PhD, Nursing
  • The Catholic University of America Washington, DC MS, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
  • University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA BS, Nursing

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