Academic Calendar - 2023 ARCHIVE
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2023ARCHIVE
Faculty of Information and Media Studies 3934G
MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This course provides students with the critical tools needed to understand the use of media and its impact on the recognition and restitution of human rights claims.¿We examine various visual practices (documentation, archiving, witnessing, advocacy, and surveillance) and a range of visual imagery (video, photography, drawings, and monuments).
Antirequisite(s): MIT 3772F/G if taken in 2016-17, 2017-18, 2021-22, 2022-23.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Subject Code: FIMS
Faculty of Information and Media Studies 3934G
MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This course provides students with the critical tools needed to understand the use of media and its impact on the recognition and restitution of human rights claims.¿We examine various visual practices (documentation, archiving, witnessing, advocacy, and surveillance) and a range of visual imagery (video, photography, drawings, and monuments).
Antirequisite(s): MIT 3772F/G if taken in 2016-17, 2017-18, 2021-22, 2022-23.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.