2025 Spring MEDIAST 190 002 LEC 002

Spring 2025

MEDIAST 190 002 - LEC 002

Formerly Mass Communications 190

Special Topics in Media Studies

Beauty, Fashion, and Media Globalization

Meeta Rani Rani JHA

Jan 21, 2025 - May 09, 2025
Tu, Th
02:00 pm - 03:59 pm
Class #:31856
Units:4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 3
Enrolled: 45
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 48
Waitlist Max: 14
Open Reserved Seats:
2 reserved for Media Studies Majors
3 reserved for Students with Enrollment Permission

Hours & Workload

2 to 4 hours of instructor presentation of course materials, and 6 to 8 hours of outside work hours.

Final Exam

MON, MAY 12TH
11:30 am - 02:30 pm
Dwinelle 182

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Course Catalog Description

Normally open only to Media Studies majors who have already completed 12 units of upper division work in the major. Advanced study in Media Studies with topics to be announced each semester.

Class Description

This course takes an intersectional feminist approach to examine beauty and fashion in global popular consumer culture. Beauty cultures integrate local, national, and global characteristics derived from beauty pageants, the fashion industry, advertising, music videos, and films. Students will develop a complex understanding of gender and feminine identity formation in the context of globalization. This course examines the global beauty and fashion industry with a particular focus on the beauty pageant, skin lightening, and cosmetic surgery, by focusing on case studies in China, India, and the United States. Group discussions, debates, and writing assignments will supplement class lectures to develop knowledge of the social construction of gender, race, body, and cultural nationalism.

Class Notes

- During Phase I, most seats will be saved for declared Media Studies students only. Other interested students may place themselves on the waitlist. Remaining reserved seats will be released during Phase 2 of enrollment.
- Enrollment Permission seats are saved for emergencies and will be rele.. show more
- During Phase I, most seats will be saved for declared Media Studies students only. Other interested students may place themselves on the waitlist. Remaining reserved seats will be released during Phase 2 of enrollment.
- Enrollment Permission seats are saved for emergencies and will be released much closer to the start of class instruction.
- Freshmen are not permitted to enroll in this course.

For more information on the enrollment process for this course, please visit https://mediastudies.ugis.berkeley.edu/course-enrollment-information/

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For Media Studies majors, this course fulfills the GCS.3 Popular Culture elective. show less

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