COURSE Description
Course Title: Media Studies
Course Code: EMS3O
Grade: 11
Course Type: Open
Credit Value: 1.0
Prerequisite: ENG2P, English, Grade 10, Applied or ENG2D, English, Grade 10, Academic
Curriculum Policy Document: English, The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12, 2007
Department: Canadian and World Studies
Course Developer: Kydan Educational Services
Development Date: 2015-2016
Course Description: 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.