Introduction One of the most common obstacles I find when teaching media literacy courses (1) is student insensitivity. Although this can exist for many different reasons, the media critiques that students submit in this type of class indicate that they've become indifferent to misogynistic, classist, and racist stereotypes. On the collegiate level, this is most evident with students who are just starting their first year. According to the University of California Los Angeles' Higher Education Research Institute (2010), only 33.1% of incoming freshman college students indicate that they thought promoting racial understanding is very important or essential in their college careers.
