DISABILITY IN FILM AND TELEVISION
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
   

FMST 1533 - DISABILITY IN FILM AND TELEVISION


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course explores disability in media through representational tropes and trends as well as how political activism has focused on mainstream media as a site for protest, a site for education, and a site for self expression. We will explore trends in film and television while engaging with the important roles of social media and online communities. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II for the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.


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