Join us this spring for Children’s Media Industry: On Location, a seven-week (7B) course taking students behind-the-scenes of the children’s media industry in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Students will explore local children’s media companies and professionals in the Philadelphia area during the spring semester. Then, the class will travel to Los Angeles for a week in May to meet with leading children’s media professionals from a wide variety of positions to gain firsthand insight into one of the world’s leading media markets.
A Little More On Children’s Media
This course will highlight the media companies behind the content children encounter every day, offering students an inside look at how that content is developed, produced, marketed, advertised and introduced to audiences.
Children engage with a wide variety of media, including television, video games, music, apps, podcasts, etc. Content created for and consumed by children can have a long-lasting impact on how they learn, develop, and engage with the world.
The course is led by Professor Sherri Hope Culver, Director of the Center for Media and Information Literacy (MIL) at Temple University and professor of instruction in Klein College of Media and Communication. Sherri directs the Certificate in Children’s Media. She holds a UNESCO Chair in MIL and produces and hosts the podcast Kids Talk Media.
Sherri was an educational advisor on the PBS Kids Media Literacy Framework and has worked on projects for TIME Studios, Fred Rogers Productions, Google Kids & Family, META, Prix Jeunesse, Agents of Change video game, and Maryland Public Television. Her publications include the report, The Quality Question: Why Children’s Media Must Aim High; a co-authored chapter in Media Literacy in a Disruptive Media Environment (2020) titled, “A Snapshot: the state of media literacy education in the US”; and a chapter in the latest edition of 20 Questions about Youth and the Media (2019) titled, “How are the needs of children considered in children’s media?”.