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.

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

MCOM - Media & Communications

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