Advanced Certificate in Social Justice Media: Smarter Outcomes

• Advanced Media Literacy: Understanding the role of media in shaping public opinion and promoting social justice. Analyzing media bias and propaganda, and developing strategies to counteract them.
• Social Justice Movements and Media: Examining the relationship between social justice movements and media, including the role of media in shaping movements and movements' use of media to achieve their goals. Case studies may include Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and environmental movements.
• Digital Activism and Social Media: Investigating the impact of social media on activism and social justice, including the use of hashtags, memes, and other digital tools to spread awareness and mobilize action. Analyzing the opportunities and challenges presented by digital activism.
• Ethics and Social Justice Media: Exploring the ethical considerations involved in creating and disseminating social justice media. Topics may include informed consent, cultural appropriation, and the role of emotion in social justice media.
• Data Visualization and Social Justice: Learning how to use data visualization tools and techniques to communicate social justice issues effectively. Topics may include best practices for creating accessible and accurate data visualizations, and analyzing examples of successful social justice data visualizations.
• Storytelling for Social Justice: Developing skills in storytelling for social justice, including interviewing, writing, and producing multimedia content. Students will create their own social justice media project, incorporating ethical considerations and best practices for effective storytelling.
• Social Justice Documentary Filmmaking: Learning the technical and ethical skills needed to produce social justice documentaries. Students will create their own short documentary on a social justice issue, incorporating feedback and revisions.
• Social Justice Podcasting: Exploring the power of podcasting as a tool for social justice, and learning the technical and ethical skills needed to produce a podcast. Students will create their own short podcast episode on a social justice issue, incorporating feedback and revisions.
• Advocacy and Policy Change through Media: Examining the role of media in advocacy and policy change, including the use of media to influence policy makers and the public. Students will develop a media campaign for a social justice issue, incorporating research, target audience analysis, and messaging strategies.