The Major in Media
Studies requires 40 credits.
Foundation (4 credits required)
- MS - 100 Introduction to Media Studies
Core Courses (8 credits required)
- MS - 200 Media Institutions
- MS - 205 Media Audience and Research
Production Foundations (8 credits required)
- MS - 221 Audio Production
- MS - 222 Video Production
- MS - 223 Journalism 1: Reporting
- MS - 224 Journalism II: Advanced Reporting
Advanced Area Studies (12 credits required)
Advanced Core (Choose one course, 4 units):
- MS - 311 Communication Law and Policy
- MS - 313 Media Theory and Criticism
Advanced Electives (Choose two, 8 units)
- MS - 301 Green Media
- MS - 306 The Documentary
- MS - 307 Advanced Radio Production
- MS - 315 Telenovelas/Soap Operas
- MS - 317 Latin American Cinema
- MS - 318 Indian Cinema
- MS - 319 LGBT Cinema
- MS - 320 Digital Media Production
- MS - 322 MP III: Advanced Media Production
- MS - 323 Publication Editing and Design
- MS - 325 Feature Writing
- MS - 327 MP III: Scriptwriting
- MS - 328 Photojournalism
- MS - 329 Arts Reporting and Reviewing
- MS - 330 MP III: Documentary Production
- MS - 331: MP III: Narrative Film Production
- MS - 335 Feminist Thought
- MS - 340 MP III: Experimental Cinema
- MS - 350 Human Rights and Film
- MS - 380 Latinos in U.S. Media
Senior Seminars (choose two, 8 units)
Prerequisites: Completion of 200-level requirements
- MS - 400 Politics and the Media
- MS - 403 Race, Ethnicity and Media
- MS - 405 Gender and the Media
- MS - 407 Alternative Media and Social Change
- MS - 409 International/Global Media
- MS - 410 Popular Music and Communication
- MS - 411 Case Studies in Popular Culture
- MS - 412 Media, Memory, History
- MS 414 Undoing Gender
- MS - 490 Honors Seminar in Media Studies
Note: Students must obtain a grade of "C" or higher in every
class in the major and may not count pre-requisite courses in which a
grade of "C-" or lower is obtained.
Learning Goals/Outcomes for the B.A. in Media
Studies
Students who complete the B.A. in Media Studies will be able
to:
- Understand foundational relationships between media,
culture, and society.
- Develop critical skills in assessing media as a
consumer and citizen.
- Develop foundational skills in media profession
practice in electronic media and journalism.
- Understand the historical and contemporary practices
of news media in societal context.
- Understand the historical and contemporary practices
of electronic media in societal context.
- Understand the legal and ethical constraints on media
practices.
- Understand the social theories of media and power,
and the development of media criticism.
- Understand and apply theories and research on media
uses and effects.
- Develop research skills in media history, theory, and
criticism, and in media analysis.
- Gain advanced knowledge in Media and Society,
Electronic Media, or Journalism.
- Gain understanding of professional practices in media
organizations through fieldwork.
- Apply advanced research or professional skills to a
Senior Thesis or Project.
