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This is what taxpayers are paying for:

Media Violence; 4 credits CR 410/CRN44939 CR 510/44940 Tues/Thurs 10:00-11:50am

This course will explore the impact and influence that media has on cultural norms and ideals, with particular attention to the many ways that media promotes and reinforces patterns of violence and oppression. This course will introduce the concept of media literacy, inviting participants to discuss and deconstruct popular media message in film, video, television, radio, music, print and on the Internet.

Course content will also present research on the correlation between media consumption and early brain development, and the connection to changes in expected and accepted social norms.

Students will have the opportunity to creatively conceptualized non-oppressive media, and the class will explore means to advocate for social responsibility within the media industry.

In taking this course, students will become more educated consumers of their media diet, and more powerful activists for appropriate media education and direction.

Instructor:

Amanda Byron has a Masters Degree in Intercultural Communication and Program Administration and is currently on a leave of absence from the PhD program in Urban Studies.

Ms. Byron has over ten years of experience working with survivors of torture, and has been an active community organizer in the fields of violence prevention, and community development.

She is a trained mediator, specializing in Victim/Offender mediation, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Oregon Peace Institute.

WHAT A LOAD OF PSYCHO-BABBLE

"Ms. Byron has over ten years of experience working with survivors of torture..."

So she's been hanging out with Gi'tmo detainees, has she?

is currently on a leave of absence from the PhD program in Urban Studies.

Is this the stamp of someone who can't even get approval from fellow Islamo-leftists?