2017-2018 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

Media Studies Minor

Requirements: (17 credits)

Required course:

COMM 230Introduction to Mass Media

3

Total Credit Hours:3

Any two of the following (6 credits)

COMM 220/CINE 220Introduction to History of Film

3

or

COMM 255Visual Communication

3

COMM 227Introduction to Television Production

3

or

COMM 228Introduction to Digital Film Production

3

COMM 231Communication Technologies

3

COMM 336Media Literacy

3

Total Credit Hours:6

Additional credits from the following list (8 credits)

COMM 315Political Communication

4

COMM 319/CINE 319Filmic Narrative

4

COMM 327TV Production

4

COMM 328Digital Film Production 1

4

COMM 329Screenwriting

4

COMM 332Web Publishing

4

COMM 338Analysis of News

4

COMM 345Writing for the Electronic Media

4

COMM 355Converging Media

4

COMM 380/CINE 380Women and Film

4

COMM 382/CINE 382American Cinema

4

COMM 399Current Topics in Commincation

1

COMM 410/JRN 410Public Opinion

4

COMM 420Principles of Digital Photography for Convergent Media

4

COMM 427Studio Production

4

COMM 428Digital Film Production II

4

COMM 431Mass Media and Society

4

COMM 432Media In Film

4

COMM 435/WGSS 435Images of Gender in the Media

4

COMM 436Streaming Media in Web Publishing

4

COMM 445Advertising and Society

4

COMM 455Global Visual Communication

4

COMM 485Topics in Media and Culture

3 to 4

COMM 487TV Documentary

4

COMM 488Film Documentary

4

COMM 496Field Studies in Communication

3