Course Number: T317

Title: Children and Media

Sections: 4487

Instructor: Nancy Schwartz

Course Prerequisites: T205 or consent of instructor

Course Objective: The purpose of this course is to learn about
children and media. This will be done by examining questions such
as: What makes children a unique audience? What do they watch? Why
do they watch? How do children process media messages? What do they
do with media? What do media do to them? Should children be a
protected group? How is children’s media regulated? What is media
literacy? How does the business of children’s entertainment work?

Course Format: Large lecture format. No discussion sections.

Requirements Course Fulfills: COAS Social and Historical Studies
distribution requirement, Part of Media and Society Track, COAS and
Dept. of Telecommunications 300-400 level course requirements
	
Required Texts:
Calvert, S. (1999). Children’s Journeys Through the Information Age.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Van Evra, J. (1998). Television and Child Development (2nd Edition).
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Meeting Times: MW 5:45P – 7:00P