Core Competencies
Majors are required to take one course in each of four core areas. Minors are required to take three courses chosen from different core areas. The same course may be listed under more than one competency; but one course cannot be used to satisfy more than one of the core competencies numbered 1-4 below.
Core Competency 1. Techniques of
Performance and Creativity (majors choose one)
Art: Any studio art course
English: Any creative writing course
ENG 308 Screenwriting
ENG 178 Acting I
Music: Private Instruction and Ensembles (1/2 credit
per semester; two semesters required)
MUS 210 American Musical Theater
MUS 400 Orchestration
Dance: Any combination of dance classes for a total
of 2.5 credits or one of the following:
DAN 200 Dance Composition I
DAN 300 Dance Composition II
Core Competency 2. Use of Imaging
Technologies
(majors choose one):
MDSC 300 Making the News
MDSC 305 Film Editing
Core Competency 3. Critical Analysis or Media
Theory
(majors choose one):
ALST 200 Ghettoscapes
ALST 226 Screen Latinos
ALST 309 Black Cinema
ALST 310 Black Images/White Myths
ART 212 Women Make Movies
ASN 342 Chinese Cinema
ENG 176 Film Analysis I
ENG 201 Jane Austen in Film
ENG 229 Television Histories, Television Narratives
ENG 230 Film Analysis II
ENG 233 Art of the Screenplay
ENG 368 Film and Ideology
ENG 375 Science Fiction
ENG 376 New Waves
FRE 241 Que sais-je?
FRNE 252 Beyond Colonialism: Maghreb Cultures and Literatures
FRNE 395 Society and culture in the Ancien Régime: Representation of Race
MDSC 204 Imagining the West
MDSC 205 America in the Seventies
MDSC 307 Medicine and Society
MDSC 310 Covenant with Death
MDSC 224 Age of Propaganda I
MDSC 225 Age of Propaganda II
MDSC 303 Social Documentary
PHIL 220 Semiotics
PHIL 230 Aesthetics
PHIL 260 Mind and Language
POL 320 Mass Media
POL 363 Cyber Politics/Cyber Culture
WRRH 250 Talk and Text: Introduction to Discourse Analysis
Core Competency 4: Cultural History of the
Fine Arts or Mass Media
(majors choose one):
ALST 310 Black Images/White Myths
ALST 200 Ghettoscapes
ART 101 Ancient to Medieval
ART 102 Renaissance to Modern
ART 103 East Asian Art Survey
ART 110 Visual Culture
ART 201 African-American Art
ART 208 Greek Art and Architecture
ART 210 Woman as Image and Image-Maker
ART 211 Feminism in the Arts
ART 221 Early Italian Renaissance Art
ART 222 Women in Renaissance Art and Life
ART 226 Northern Renaissance Art
ART 230 Age of Michaelangelo
ART 240 European Art and Architecture
ART 249 Islamic Art and Architecture
ART 252 Japanese Art and Culture
ART 256 Art of the Russian Revolution
DAN 210 Dance History I
DAN 212 Dance History II
DAN 214 Dance History III
ENG 287 Film Histories I
ENG 288 Film Histories I
ENG 289 Film Histories III
ENG 370 Hollywood on Hollywood
ENG 229 Television History, Television Narratives
ENG 264 Globalism and Literature
EUST 101 Foundations of European Studies I
EUST 102 Foundations of European Studies II
MDSC 205 America in the Seventies
MDSC 307 Medicine and Society
MDSC 224 Age of Propaganda I
MDSC 225 Age of Propaganda I
MDSC 303 Social Documentary
MUS 135 Music in the Americas: 1750 - 2000
MUS 202 History of Western Art and Music: Medieval and Renaissance
MUS 203 History of Western Art and Music: Baroque and Classical
MUS 204 History of Western Art and Music: Romantic and Modern
MUS 207 Music in American Culture: Jazz and Popular
MUS 210 American Musical Theater
MUS 216 Music of Asia
MUS 217 Folk and Traditional Music of Africa and the Americas
Core Competency 5: Three Research Goals
(integrated into other course work for the major. The
courses which meet these goals are approved by the
adviser)
Research goal 1: Use of library, archival, and Internet sources
Research goal 2: Media content analysis (qualitative or quantitative)
Research goal 3: Fieldwork (interviews, reporting, documenting).
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