Sut Jhally Website - Online Courses

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COMM 287 Advertising as Social Communication
COMM 288 Gender, Sex and Representation

Online Courses

Sut Jhally's undergraduate course lectures at the University of Massachusetts have been offered on-line for the last two years. Watch for yourself.

COMM 287 Advertising as Social Communication

COMM 287 Advertiisng as Social Communication is a course taught by Sut Jhally. It focues broadly on the social. cultural and economic role played by advertising in advanced consumer societies. His lectures, delivered in the Fall 0f 2005 were taped and are available as streaming video.

Click here to go to the course web site

COMM 288 Gender, Sex and Representation

COMM 288 Gender, Sex and Representation. This course will examine the relationship between commercialized systems of representation and the way that gender and sexuality are thought of and organized in the culture. In particular, we will look to see how commercial imagery impacts upon gender identity and the process of gender socialization. Central to this discussion will be the related issues of sexuality and sexual representation. These lectures were delivered in the Fall of 2009.

There are 24 Lectures in 3 Parts. You can watch them as Real Player streaming video files by clicking on the link below, or you can download them from ITUNES U.

Part One: Sex, Gender and Femininity:

1. Sex and Gender 1
2. Sex and Gender 2
3. The Codes of Gender 1
4. The Codes of Gender 2
5. Identity, Images & Power
6. Backlash
7. The Beauty Myth 1
8. The Beauty Myth 2

Part Two: The Construction of Masculinity

9. Pleasure and Power
10. The Tough Guise 1
11. The Tough Guise 2
12. The Tough Guise 3
13. The Tough Guise and Race
14. Gender and Race
15. Homophobia
16. Homophobia 2 / Better Men

Part Three: Sexuality and Representation

17. GLBT Representations 1
18. GLBT Representations 2
19. GLBT Representations 3 / Pornography 1
19. GLBT Representations 3 / Pornography 1
21. Pornography 2
21. Pornography 3
22. Pornography 4
23. Flirting With Danger 1
24. Flirting With Danger 2