Major Requirements (44 credits)

I. Required Courses (12 credits)

Complete all of the following:

• course - Introduction to Media Studies (C- or Higher)

• course - Documentary Practice

• course - Advanced Inquiry in Media Research

II. Application of Learning/Experiential Learning (4 credits)

Complete 4 credits chosen from among the following courses in consultation with the adviser. Only 4 credits of internship can be counted toward the major if the NY Semester is taken (course/course & course/course).

• course - Internship Project (4 credits)

• course - Advanced Selected Topics in Media: Practice OR MCOM 305: Civic Media

NY Semester on Media and Communications (8 credits):

• course - Introduction to Media Industries OR course - Introduction to Media Industries OR

• course - New York Semester on Communications and Media Colloquium OR course - New York Semester on Communications and Media Colloquium

Community-based Learning Courses including (check course listings for additional community-based courses offered on a semester-by-semester basis):

• course - Community Language and Literacy [CBL]

• course - Applied Performance: Addressing Sexual Harassment, Violence, and Discrimination through Interactive Performance

• course - Theatre in The Community: The Newark Collaboration

III. Electives (28 credits)

Complete 28 credits, selected from the following categories. Students must distribute their electives among the three areas below, choosing at least one course from each area. At least three of the courses chosen must be at the upper-level, and at least one of those upper-level courses chosen must be in the MCOM subject. See semester course listing for additional course offerings.

Systems and Contexts

In these courses, students examine media institutions and the larger structures and frameworks - social, cultural, economic, and political - that shape media and communications.

• course - Cultural Diversity: Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics

• course - Visual Culture

• course/course - Political Economy of Race, Class, and Gender

• course/course - Contemporary Transnational Cinema

• course - Intercultural Communication

• course - History of Rhetoric

• course - Community Language and Literacy [CBL]

• course/course- Filming American Feminisms

• course - Introduction to Media Industries

• course/course - Cinema and Social Justice

• course/course - New York Semester on Communications and Media Colloquium

• course/course - Advertising in American History

• course - Systems and Contexts: Selected Topics in Media

• course - Forms: Selected Topics in Media

• course - Race, Representation, Media

• course - Advanced Topics in Media & Communications

• course - Media in the United Kingdom

• course/course - Introduction to Media Industries

• course - Fan Cultures

• course - Public Opinion and Survey Research

• course - Spirituality, Gender and the Media

• course - Sociology of Inequality

• course - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

• course - Sociology of Mass Communications

Forms

In these courses, students learn the structural elements, patterns, and formal systems that define digital, textual, and aural media, developing a critical vocabulary that informs their own media practice.

• ARTH240 - History of Graphic Design

• course - History of Photography

• course - Selected Topics in Modern Chinese Literature and Film

• course/course - Introduction to Film Analysis

• course/course - Graphic Literature and the Environment

• course/course - Film History and Theory

• course - Introduction to Writing and Communication Studies

• course - Literature for Young People

• course/course - Thinking about Genre through Film

• course/course - Interpreting and Making the News

• course/course - Contemporary Francophone Cinema

• course/course - German Film in English

• course - History of American Journalism

• course/course - Contemporary Italian Cinema

• course/course - From Book to Screen

• course - Language, Communication, and Culture

• course - Forms: Selected Topics in Media

• course - Advanced Topics in Media & Communications

• course/course - Music and the Soundscape of Film

• course/course - Aesthetics

• course/course - Cinematic Language: An Introduction to Spanish Filmic Discourse

• course - Graphic Communication for the Theatre

Practice

In these courses, students become producers of digital, textual, and/or aural media; they also reflect on their practice, applying the theoretical frameworks they have learned elsewhere in the major.

• course - Photography I

• course - Digital Imaging

• course - Photography II

• course - Digital Video

• course - Motion Design

• course - Digital 3D Graphics

• course - Data Graphics

• course - Photography III

• course - Introduction to Computer Science in JavaScript

• course - Introduction to Computer Science in Python

• course - Software Engineering

• course/course - Applied Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship

• course - Introduction to Journalism

• course - Business Communications

• course - Creative Nonfiction Workshop

• course - Nonfiction Writing Workshop: Articles

• course - Theory and Practice of Media Communication

• course - Advanced Journalism

• course/course - Blogs, Tweets, and Social Media: The Practice of Digital Communication

• course - Geographic Information Systems

• course - Public Relations

• course - Advanced Topics in Media & Communications

• course - Electronic Music Composition

• course - Speech Fundamentals

• course - Programming in R

• course - Introduction to Acting

• course - Playwriting

• course - Advanced Playwriting