Film and Media Arts Emphasis
In addition to the 6 credit hours of the department's core courses, the Film and Media Arts emphasis requires COMS 230 - Introduction to Film Studies (3 cr. hrs) and 24 hours of Film and Media Arts electives for a total of 33 credit hours.
Required Courses: (3 Hours) Hours
COMS 230 Introduction to Film Studies 3
Film and Media Arts Electives: (24 Hours)
COMS 220 Modern Communications Media 3
COMS 250 Introduction to Media Production 3
COMS 320 Mass Media, Culture and Society 3
COMS 339 Film Theory and Criticism 3
COMS 341WI Rhetorical Theory & Criticism
COMS 351WI Fundamentals of Writing for
the Media 3
COMS 363 Radio Production I 3
COMS 373 Intermediate Media Production 3
COMS 376 History of the Film Industry 3
COMS 380 Contemporary Issues in the
Mass Media 3
COMS 384 Documentary Film 3
COMS 385 Documentary Production 3
COMS 391 The Worlds of Alfred Hitchcock 3
COMS 392 Great Directors of Foreign Film 3
COMS 393 History of the Hollywood Musical 3
COMS 394 The World of "Film Noir" 3
COMS 400 Special Studies 1-3
COMS 402CD American Social Film: Silver
Screen & the American Dream 3
COMS 403CE Radical Changes Since 1945 3
COMS 454 Screenwriting 3
COMS 457 Producing and Distributing Media 3
COMS 470 Directing 3
COMS 471 Advanced Media Production 3
COMS 478 Media Law 3
COMS 484 Communication Studies Activities 1-4
COMS 498 Special Problems in
Communication Studies 1-6