Concentrations
A concentration for the major consists of
5 courses from any one of the clusters
below. At least two must be in two
different disciplines. At least one must be
an MDSC course unless otherwise
indicated. Most courses taken to satisfy
the core competencies can be applied toward at least one concentration; consult
the courses listed under each concentration.
A minor chooses any two courses
from the following:
Concentration in Studies in Mass Media and Politics
ALST 300 Ghettoscapes
ALST 309 Black Cinema
ALST 310 Black Images/White Myths
MDSC 205 America in the Seventies
MDSC 307 Medicine and Society
MDSC 224 Age of Propaganda I
MDSC 225 Age of Propaganda II
MDSC 303 Social Documentary
POL 320 Mass Media
POL 363 Cyber Politics/Cyber Culture
Concentration in Studies in Film, Television, and New Media
ALST 300 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?
MDSC 205 America in the Seventies
MDSC 307 Medicine and Society
MDSC 224 Age of Propaganda I
MDSC 225 Age of Propaganda II
MDSC 300 Social Documentary
POL 363 Cyber Politics/Cyber Culture
Studies in Critical Method and Mass Media Theory
ART 110 Visual Culture
ENG 368 Film and Ideology
PHIL 220 Semiotics
PHIL 230 Aesthetics
PHIL 260 Mind and Language
POL 363 Cyber Politics/Cyber Culture
WRRH 250 Talk and Text
Concentration in Studies in Cultural Production: Composition and Technology
ART 234 Photography
ART 239 Digital Imaging
ART 245 Photosilkscreen Printing
ART 301 Photography Workshop
DAN 200 Dance Composition I
DAN 300 Dance Composition II
EDUC 295 Theater and the Child
English: Any creative writing course
ENG 307 Playwriting Workshop
ENG 308 Screenwriting
MDSC 300 Making the News
MDSC 305 Film Editing
MDSC 485 Practicum: College Journalism
MUS 400 Orchestration
WRRH 300 Issues and Practice of American Journalism
WRRH 302 Op-Ed: Writing Political and Cultural Commentary
Cognate Courses
Social Theory
(majors choose one; none of these courses can be
counted for the minor)
BIDS 200 Critical Social Theory
POL 160 Introduction to Political Theory
POL 175 Introduction to Feminist Theory
SOC 221 Sociology of Minorities
SOC 222 Social Change
SOC 226 Sociology of Sex and Gender
SOC 228 Social Conflicts
SOC 249 Technology and Society
SOC 260 Sociology of Human Nature
SOC 256 Power and Powerlessness
SOC 257 Political Sociology
SOC 259 Theory of Social Movements
SOC 275 Social Policy
American History and Social Consciousness
(majors choose one; none of these courses can be counted for the minor)
AMST 100 History and Forms of American Culture
HIST 204 History of American Society
HIST 208 Women of American History
HIST 215 American Urban History
HIST 227 African-American History I: The Early Era
HIST 228 African-American History II: The Modern Era
HIST 240 History of Immigration and Ethnicity in America
HIST 246 American Environmental History
HIST 250 Medieval Popular Culture
HIST 258 Transformation of Rural America
HIST 306 Civil War and Reconstruction: 1845-1877
HIST 310 Rise of Industrial America
HIST 311 20th -Century America: 1917-1941
HIST 312 The U.S. Since 1939
HIST 314 Aquarian Age: The 1960s
HIST 337 History of American Thought Since 1865
HIST 340 Faulkner and Southern Historical Consciousness
POL 215 Minority Group Politics
POL 270 African-American Political Thought
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