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_________ is a course conceptual framework used to illustrate that because of communication technologies such as video cameras on cell phones and opportunities to upload those videos and other texts in social media, students today cannot assume controversial things they speak, enact, write, record, email, text, or post allegedly in private can ever again be done with a guarantee of complete privacy. 

_______ symbols are embodied images that may reflect the gender of the creator who consciously or unconsciously embeds them in visual communication including but not limited to artistic paintings, photography, film, advertsing, architecture, comedy, etc.

According to Rothenberg author Beverly Tatum in “Defining Racism:  Can we Talk,” which of the following is FALSE

__________ is the 1873 case where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that just because a woman had passed a state’s bar exam, that state was not required to admit the woman to the bar nor allow her to practice law. In its ruling against woman who filed the case,  the court invoked “divine ordinance” and the “natural and proper timidity and delicacy” of the female sex as part of its rationale to disallow her, though fully “qualified,” to practice law.

We are embodied communicators!  In addition to differences in biological female and male brains, which other parts of the human body are linked with potential gender differences in how we communicate and form relationships?    

Some red states like Georgia have been accused of engaging in various forms of ways to discourage registered voters from voting. According to Rothenberg readings, which of the following is NOT an example of what is now called “voter suppression?”

In the film clip from Dreamworlds 3 we saw in class, filmmaker and Professor Sut Jhally argues in his video essay that music videos use __________ to focus attention on women’s sexual body parts thereby robbing women of their full humanity.  Dr. James suggests this practice compares to linguistic practices (rituals) of pejoratively labeling women by sexualized body parts,  e.g., “headlights, tits, ass.”  

Janus excercise author Morales  makes which of the following claims about teaching racism?

__________ is the shorthand reference to part of the 1964 U.S. Civil Rights Acts, Educational Amendments that required K-12 schools, college and universities receiving federal funds to give girls and women comparable opportunities to compete in school-sponsored sports.

According to Dr. James, university students enrolled in Florida public colleges and universities who want to take diversity-related course– especially those courses that consider gender, gender identity, sexism, race, systemic racism,  intersectionality, oppression, and/or privilege — may face which of the following challenges?