Media Studies Concentration
Coordinator: Professor John F. Schott
A Concentration in Media Studies invites students to explore important ways modern media-film, photography, video and television-connect with and affect established disciplines. The concentration encourages study of the long-established literature-film nexus, and it also encourages students of arts, history, government, sociology, music and psychology to consider media-related aspects of their major discipline.
Requirements for a Production Emphasis:
Required Courses:
MEDA 110: Introduction to Media Studies
MEDA 111: Introduction to Video Production
MEDA 114: Film History and Criticism
MEDA 395: Film Theory (Capstone Seminar taken in the Senior Year)
In addition to the four required courses students are required to take two of the following:
MEDA 122: Video Production for Community Television
MEDA 220: Nonfiction Video Production
MEDA 221: Fiction Video Production
Students may take any additional courses in production (Pre-Production or Digital production) to reach the minimum of 45 credits required for the concentration.
a) Pre-Production
MEDA 112: Screenwriting
MEDA 210: Project Conception and Development Workshop
b) Digital Production
MEDA 219: Radio Narrative
MEDA 250: Designing Complex Web Sites
MEDA 262: Advanced Editing Techniques
MEDA 263: Authoring New Media
Requirements for a History and Theory Emphasis:
Required courses:
MEDA 110: Introduction to Media Studies
MEDA 111: Introduction to Video Production
MEDA 114: Film History and Criticism
MEDA 395: Film Theory (Capstone Seminar taken in the Senior Year)
Students take additional courses in history and theory (American Film, International Film, Non-Narrative/Nonfiction or Electronic/Digital Media) to reach the minimum of 45 credits required for the concentration.
Students are encouraged to take one course from each of the following areas:
a) American Film
MEDA 135: History of American Film
MEDA 224: Film's Narrative Strategies (Not offered in 2002-2003)
MEDA 228: Rethinking the Fifties Through Film, Television and Photography (Not offered in 2002-2003)
MEDA 229: Outsiders Cinema: Fiction Film (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
MEDA 234: Film Noir: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Not Offered 2002-2003)
MEDA 280: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (3 credit course)
MEDA 281: The Cinema of Martin Scorsese (3 credit course)
MEDA 282: Hitchcock: The Classic Films (Not offered 2002-2003)
b) International Film
MEDA 231: Japanese Cinema
MEDA 233: Italian Neorealism and Its Legacy (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
MEDA 238: Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspectives on French & German Cinema
MEDA 237: Chinese Cinema
MEDA 242: Women and World Cinema
MEDA 247: African Cinema: In Search of Identity & Self Definition (Not offered in 2002-2003)
MEDA 255: Russian Cinema: History and Theory (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
MEDA 257: Lorca, Buñuel and Dalí: Poetry, Film and Painting in Spain
And one course from either of the following areas:
c) Non-Narrative/Nonfiction or
MEDA 115: Music and the Media
MEDA 232: Cinema at the Edge: The Idea of Avant-Garde (Not offered in 2002-2003)
MEDA 244: Representing Reality: Nonfiction Film and Video (Not offered in 2002-2003)
MEDA 362: Narrative Theory
d) Electronic/Digital Media
MEDA 204: Media and American Politics (Not offered in 2002-2003)
MEDA 227: Open the Box: Studies in Television (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
MEDA 260: Cyberculture Studies in Digital Culture and the Internet
Students are expected to work with a Media Studies faculty advisor to devise an optimum program of study.