When you have completed Communication Studies 420, you should be able to

  1. discuss how children make sense of the world through the social and intellectual tools at their disposal, and how developments in media technology affect the ways in which this process occurs.
  2. discuss the institutional frameworks that affect children’s exposure to and awareness of media technologies.
  3. assess the role of media processes in the communication of texts, with an emphasis on reception rather than on production.
  4. explain the need for children to develop sensitivity to how different media construct images and understanding.
  5. discuss questions of formal and informal media education for young children.
  6. develop frameworks for assessing material for young people in a variety of formats.
  7. discuss how little is known about children’s response to different media.