INFO 401 - Creating Accessible Podcasts: Disability, Media Accessibility, and Information Literacy
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; Diversity
This course explores disability, accessibility, and information literacy through podcast creation, applying disability justice, WCAG, UDL, and equitable design to design, evaluate, and share inclusive media informed by historical and societal contexts.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay -Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements. INFO 250
Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of disability as a diverse and complex experience, recognizing its significance in the context of information access and media consumption, and apply principles of accessibility to ensure equitable representation and participation for all individuals in the creation, evaluation, and dissemination of media.
- Analyze the historical and societal context of disability, understanding how systemic inequalities have shaped access to information, and apply disability justice principles to evaluate and create accessible media that fosters inclusive and equitable information sharing for all.
- Identify and analyze user interface facilitators and barriers in podcast accessibility, applying information literacy principles to design and evaluate podcast content that is inclusive, ensuring seamless access for diverse audiences, including those with disabilities.
- Apply inclusive design best practices (including WCAG and UDL) to create podcast content that ensures equitable access to information for diverse audiences, while critically reflecting on how one’s own identity and social position shape approaches to accessibility, representation, and audience engagement.
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes
- Analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and the ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
2. Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
3. Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups
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