Some class ideas:

• J-388 Communication Theory and Criticism
• J-386 Communication Economics
• J-385 Communication Law
  
• ENG- 266 History of the Motion Picture
• ENG- 300 Introduction to Literary Criticism
• ENG 316 Women’s Drama
  
• FLR- 485 Film and Folklore
  
• HST- 309 History of Women in the United States
• HST- 351 American Radicalism
  
• HC 321H Age of Satire
  
• MUS- 265 History of Rock Music
  
• PHIL 340 Environmental Philosophy
  
• PS 225 Political Ideologies
• PS 349 Mass Media and American Politics
  
• SOC 317 Sociology of Mass Media
  
• WST 341 Women, Work and Class
• WST 352 Women’s Literature, Art and Society

And a couple of books:

• Roland Barthes, Mythologies. A classic look at media and symbols.
• Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
• Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media.
• Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics.
• bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom.
• Don Hazen and Julie Winokur, We The Media: A Citizen’s Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy.
• Charlotte Ryan, Prime Time Activism: Media Strategies for Grassroots Organizing.

And a couple of web sites:

• The media literacy on-line project: http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/homepage
• The Feminist Majority: http://feminist.org/
• Alt.Culture: http://www.pathfinder.com/altculture/aentries/g/guerrillax.html
• Center for Media and Democracy: http://www.prwatch.org/
• Institute for Alternative Journalism: http://www.alternet.org/an/Congress.html