This course emphasizes knowledge and skills that will enable students to understand media communications in the twenty-first century and to use media effectively and responsibly. Through analyzing the forms and messages of a variety of media works and audience responses to them, and through creating their own media works, students will develop critical thinking skills, aesthetic and ethical judgment, and skills in viewing, representing, listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Prerequisite: English, Grade 10, Academic or Applied

A. UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETING MEDIA TEXTS

1. Understanding and Responding to Media Texts  

2. Deconstructing Media Texts

B. MEDIA AND SOCIETY

1. Understanding Media Perspectives

2. Understanding the Impact of Media on Society

C.THE MEDIA INDUSTRY

1. Industry and Audience

2. Ownership and Control

D. PRODUCING AND REFLECTING ON MEDIA TEXTS

1. Producing Media Texts

2. Careers in Media Production

3. Metacognition