Requirements for the Minor (24 credits)

Note: No more than 12 credits can be taken in one department. This limit excludes courses with the MCOM designation.

I. Core (8 credits)

Complete all of the following:

• course - Introduction to Media Studies OR course - Introduction to Media Studies

• course - Media and Communication Theories and Methods

II. Practice/Production (4 credits)

Complete 4 credits, selected from the following:

• course - Documentary Practice

• course - Advanced Selected Topics in Media: Practice

• course - Internship Project

NY Semester on Media and Communications (8 credits):

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

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

Community-based Learning Courses (check course listings for additional community-based learning 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 (12 credits)

Complete 12 credits, at least 8 of which are intermediate or upper-level, chosen from the Systems and Contexts, Forms, and Practice categories:

A. 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 - Political Economy of Race, Class, and Gender

• course - Contemporary Transnational Cinema

• course - Gender and Communication

• course - Intercultural Communication

• course - History of Rhetoric

• course - Community Language and Literacy [CBL]

• course - Rhetorics of the Workplace/Professional Communication

• course - Introduction to Media Industries

• course - New York Semester on Communications and Media Colloquium

• course - Advertising in American History

• course - Systems and Contexts: Selected Topics in Media

• course - Advertising in American History

• course - Media in the United Kingdom

• course - Introduction to Media Industries

• course - Spirituality, Gender and the Media

• course - Sociology of Inequality

• course - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

• course - Sociology of Mass Communications

• course - Filming American Feminisms OR course - Filming American Feminisms

• course - Public Opinion and Survey Research

B. 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.

• course - History of Graphic Design

• course - History of Photography

• course - Selected Topics in Modern Chinese Literature and Film

• course - Introduction to Film Analysis

• course - Introduction to Writing and Communication Studies

• course - Thinking about Genre through Film

• course - Interpreting and Making the News

• course - Contemporary Francophone Cinema

• course - Entertaining Crowds: Popular Culture in 19th and 20th Century France

• course - German Film in English

• course - History of American Journalism

• course - Contemporary Italian Cinema

• course - From Book to Screen

• course - Language, Communication, and Culture

• course - Forms: Selected Topics in Media

• course - Interpreting and Making the News

• course - Advanced Topics in Media & Communications

• course - Music and the Soundscape of Film

• course - Aesthetics

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

• course - Gender in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction and Film

• course - Graphic Communication for the Theatre

C. 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 - Digital Animation

• course - Photography III

• course - Applied Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship

• course - Introduction to Computer Science in JavaScript

• course - Introduction to Computer Science in Python

• course - Software Engineering

• course - Gender and Communication

• course - Introduction to Journalism

• course - Business Communications

• course- Nonfiction Writing Workshop: Articles

• course - Theory and Practice of Media Communication

• course - Advanced Journalism

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

• course - Geographic Information Systems

• course - Public Relations

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

• course - Advanced Topics in Media & Communications

• course - Electronic Music Composition

• course - Speech Fundamentals

• course - Advanced Speech

• course - Programming in R

• course - Introduction to Acting

• course - Playwriting

• course - Advanced Playwriting