Opportunities

UMass Amherst and Massachusetts opportunities

Massachusetts is a leader in making media literacy a part of the public school classroom. Department of Communication Senior Lecturer & Associate Chair  and Media Literacy Certificate Program Director Allison Butler co-runs Mass Media Literacy (MML), a state-based grassroots organization that supports teacher education and classroom inclusion of media literacy and develops curriculum for the inclusion of media literacy across the K-12 curriculum. 

Residential and local students who enroll in the Media Literacy Certificate program will be able to draw from the work being conducted in Massachusetts and take part in local civic engagement opportunities with organizations and projects devoted to media literacy application and learning. For example, they might participate:

Online students will learn the skills of media literacy and will be able to research and participate in media literacy efforts in their communities and/or build media literacy curriculum for local or national efforts. Online students may have the opportunity to develop community engagement opportunities in their own geographic areas. The flexibility of online learning enables students from a variety of geographic and intellectual backgrounds to expand their learning while also expanding the infusion of media literacy beyond the walls of the classroom.