ARTS 095 - New Media and Social Change

    Recent Professors
    Lesley Louden
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Winter 2023
    Class Size
    30–40 students
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisite
    None
    Fall 2025 Sections
    View Fall 2025 sections of ARTS 095
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3A · IGETC Area 3A · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area C1
    Description
    This course investigates how web-based technologies, internet multi-media, and photography have assisted in causing social change around the world through images. Evidence of social change from significant historical photographic images from famous photographers with a variety of diverse backgrounds are explored for social and political context. The course also covers critical analysis of shifting perceptions and expectations regarding race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, cultural identity, and ethnicity in contemporary web-based visual media.