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Bachelor of Arts: Communication Studies - Film and Media Studies Emphasis

In addition to the 6 credit hours of the department's core courses (110, 483), the Film and Media Studies emphasis requires COMM-ST 330 - Introduction to Film Studies (3 cr. hrs) COMM-ST 339 - Film Theory & Criticism (3 cr. hrs) and 21 hours of Film and Media Studies electives for a total of 33 credit hours. Students are required to take one writing intensive course within their emphasis area.

Required Courses: (6 Hours)

COMM-ST 330
 Introduction to Film Studies
 3
COMM-ST 339
 Film Theory & Criticism
 3

 


Film and Media Studies Electives: (21 Hours)

COMM-ST 250
 Introduction to Film and Video Methods
 3
COMM-ST 281
 Animation
 3
COMM-ST 308
 Introduction to the Study of Human Communication
 3
COMM-ST 320
 Mass Media, Culture and Society
 3
COMM-ST 341WI
 Rhetorical Theory & Criticism
 3
COMM-ST 351WI
 Fundamentals of Writing for the Media
 3
COMM-ST 354
 Introduction to Screenwriting
 3
COMM-ST 363
 Radio Production I
 3
COMM-ST 373
 Intermediate Media Production
 3
COMM-ST 376
 History of the Film Industry
 3
COMM-ST 379
 African American Images in Film
 3
COMM-ST 380
 Contemporary Issues in the Mass Media
 3
COMM-ST 384
 Documentary Film
 3
COMM-ST 385
 Documentary Production
 3
COMM-ST 391
 The Worlds of Alfred Hitchcock
 3
COMM-ST 392
 Great Directors of Foreign Film
 3
COMM-ST 393
 History of the Hollywood Musical
 3
COMM-ST 394
 The World of "Film Noir"
 3
COMM-ST 400
 Special Studies
1-3 (Variable Topics)
Topics must be within the Film/Media Studies Emphasis)
COMM-ST 402CD
 American Social Film; Silver Screen & the American Dream
 3
COMM-ST 403CE
 Radical Changes Since 1945
 3
COMM-ST 406CD Film Adaptation 3
COMM-ST 454
 Advanced Screenwriting
 3
COMM-ST 457
 Producing and Distributing Media
 3
COMM-ST 470
 Directing
 3
COMM-ST 471
 Advanced Media Production
 3
COMM-ST 473 Directing Actors & Scenes 3
COMM-ST 478
 Media Law
 3
COMM-ST 484
 Communication Studies Activities
 3
COMM-ST 498
 Special Problems in Communication Studies
 1-6   (Restricted to 3 cr. hrs. with any one instructor)



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