How the Media Teach about Diversity
Carlos E. Cortés
Monday, 10 Nov 2008 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Carlos E. Cortés is the author of The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity and The Making - and Remaking - of a Multiculturalist. He is Creative/Cultural Advisor for Nickelodeon's award-winning children's television series Dora the Explorer and its sequel, Go, Diego, Go!, as well as coauthor of the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies series and senior consultant for the McDougal Littell World History series. Cortés is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside. He also serves on the summer faculty of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education and on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication.An audio tape of this presentation will not be available.
Cosponsored By:
- Center for American Intercultural Studies
- College of Human Sciences
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Dean of Students Office
- Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
- Multicultural Student Affairs
- YWCA Ames-ISU
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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