Spring 2027

Mass Media and Racial Diversity

Explores mass media and racial diversity, analyzing race, ethnicity, stereotypes, and white privilege in news, advertising, and social media across diverse ethnic groups.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Miya Fayne

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.62 GPA, 78.0% A/AB (n=91 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Differentiate the spectrum of race and race representation within mass and social media.

  • Use social scientific and critical research methods to identify current challenges faced by media professionals.

  • Recognize the origins of stereotyping in mass communication.

  • Appraise various stereotypes across the intersections of oppressive social systems.

  • Describe how marginalized groups use alternative and social media to tell their own stories.

  • Critically evaluate ideas from different sources and integrate or contrast race and media communication theories to produce research suitable for submission to an academic journal.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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JOURN 562

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.62 GPA, 78.0% A/AB (n=91 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MIYA FAYNE is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.62 GPA, 78.0% A/AB (n=91 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Race, ethnicity, stereotypes, and white privilege in news, advertising, digital, and social media.
  • Intersections of media representation with African, Native, Asian, Latinx, and Arab American communities.
  • Social and cultural roles of mainstream versus alternative media.
  • Origins of stereotyping in mass communication.

Skills

  • Analyze race, ethnicity, stereotypes, and white privilege across news, advertising, digital, and social media.
  • Apply social scientific and critical research methods to identify challenges for media professionals.
  • Explain how marginalized groups leverage alternative and social media for self-representation.
  • Integrate and contrast race and media communication theories to produce academic research.

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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JOURN 562 · Spring 2027

Mass Media and Racial Diversity

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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