Dates & Times:
Tuesday - Friday, July 9-12, 2013, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

For the 18th year, Wheelock College is offering a very popular summer institute on the role that the media (television, magazines, advertising, pornography, video games and music videos) plays in shaping our gender identity, our intimate relationships, our children’s lives, and ultimately our culture—and what we can do about it. The institute is taught by Dr. Gail Dines, author of PornLand: How Pornography Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, and Dr. Diane Levin, author of So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids and Remote Control Childhood: Combating the Hazards of Media Culture.

Participants will learn:

• How media violence affects behavior and contributes to violence in society
• How media images perpetuate and legitimize sexism, racism, consumerism and economic inequality
• How political and economic forces shape the media
• How media affects children’s ideas, learning, behavior and relationships
• How to critically deconstruct media images and develop media literacy skills
• How to become active in advocacy, community building, and grass roots organizing
• How to work with children, families, schools, and the wider society to counteract the harm being caused and promote the positive

Faculty:
Gail Dines, Chair of American Studies, Professor, American Studies, Wheelock College
Diane Levin, Professor, Early Childhood, Wheelock College

Tuition and Registration Fees: 
Professional Development/Continuing Education (36 PDPs/3.6 CEUs): $585

Non-matriculated student (3 graduate credits): $975