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Media School, The

B.A. in Media
Cinema and Media Arts--Studies and Production (CMASP) Concentration
Purpose

Cinema and Media Arts—Studies and Production (CMASP) students will take five courses within the concentration. All students will take courses in both "Cinema and Media Arts Production" and "Cinema and Media Arts Studies" to build the skills associated with the creation and a critical understanding of film, television, and digital, screen and aural media. In so doing, they come to understand and engage with both the meanings of media and the processes through which meanings are constructed within a broad range of contexts.

Cinema and Media Production Learning Outcomes

Cinema and Media Production courses prepare students for careers in motion picture production for cinema, television and some aspects of games and web-based communication. In addition to courses that introduce them to historically important film, television and digital media, students will learn the proper practice and techniques of image capture, manipulation, finishing and distribution. The media production field is labor intensive, and students must be able to create different products for multiple purposes with emerging technology.

Students will be able to:

  • Practice technical and professional skills essential to careers in motion picture production for cinema, television and some aspects of games and web;
  • Create original works that demonstrate skills learned in hands-on courses, including cinematography, editing, film production, field and location production, documentary production, scriptwriting, studio production, audio and many others;
  • Identify and employ emerging technologies to create products for multiple purposes on distinct platforms for a variety of audiences; and
  • Demonstrate an appreciation of the history of film, television, and digital media as outlets for aesthetic expression, political mobilization and cultural circulation.
Cinema and Media Studies Learning Outcomes

Cinema and Media Studies courses provide theoretical, critical, and historical study of cinema, television, digital, and aural media. They enable students to understand and utilize the critical interpretive skills, historical research methods, and comparative forms of analysis and thinking that are crucial to meaningfully creating and fully engaging with media in their contemporary and historical contexts. Given the ever-changing mediascape and the rich history of media over the past 150 years, Cinema and Media Studies takes a broad and inclusive view of the field, addressing non-commercial as well as commercial media, examining products and artifacts in and out of the cultural mainstream, and studying media across a broad range of national, transnational, and global frameworks.

Students will be able to:

  • Analyze cinema, television, digital and aural media applying a variety of theoretical and historical concepts and critical techniques;
  • Conduct research on contemporary and historical media topics addressing commercial and non-commercial products and artifacts and situating these discussions within a broad range of national, transnational, and global frameworks;
  • Identify, evaluate and critique the aesthetic, ideological, and historical aspects of media texts;
  • Situate media artifacts and products as works of cultural work of representation impacted by the dynamics of media industries and production including the processes of media circulation, distribution, and exhibition; and
  • Describe and interrogate questions related to the reception, uses and impact of media artifacts and products.
Requirements

Many concentration courses have prerequisites. Be sure to take those into consideration when selecting a concentration and planning the degree.

  1. Complete at least 15 credit hours, including at least 9 credit hours at the 300–400 level, divided as follows:
    1. At least two (2) courses from the Cinema and Media Studies list
      • MSCH-D 337 New Media
      • MSCH-F 290 Hollywood I
      • MSCH-F 292 Hollywood II
      • MSCH-F 306 Writing Media Criticism
      • MSCH-F 309 Images of War and Peace in Public Culture
      • MSCH-F 311 Media History
      • MSCH-F 326 Authorship in the Media
      • MSCH-F 375 Race, Gender, and Representation
      • MSCH-F 391 Media Audiences
      • MSCH-F 392 Media Genres
      • MSCH-F 398 National and Transnational Cinemas
      • MSCH-F 413 Global Villages
      • MSCH-F 420 Topics in Media History
      • MSCH-H 399 Readings for Honors
      • MSCH-J 450 History of Journalism
      • MSCH-J 470 Broadcast Media Analysis
      • MSCH-M 411 Media Industries and Cultural Production
      • MSCH-S 445 Sports and Television
      • MSCH-S 471 Applying Theory to Media Design
      • MSCH-T 410 Media Theory
      • MSCH-X 370 Community and Media
      • MSCH-X 472 Media Internship
    2. At least two (2) courses from the Cinema and Media Production list
      • MSCH-A 320 Principles of Creative Advertising
      • MSCH-A 420 Advertising Concepts and Copywriting
      • MSCH-D 337 New Media (Approved topics only)
      • MSCH-D 435 Advanced Projects in Web Design
      • MSCH-F 306 Writing Media Criticism
      • MSCH-G 400 Game Production II
      • MSCH-H 497 Senior Honors Thesis
      • MSCH-J 303 Online Journalism
      • MSCH-J 344 Photojournalism Reporting
      • MSCH-J 362 Journalism Multimedia Storytelling
      • MSCH-J 363 Web and Mobile Design
      • MSCH-J 385 Television News
      • MSCH-J 415 Literary Journalism
      • MSCH-J 444 Advanced Photojournalism
      • MSCH-J 463 Graphic Design I
      • MSCH-J 464 Infographics
      • MSCH-J 465 Graphic Design II
      • MSCH-M 330 Production Management
      • MSCH-M 411 Media Industries and Cultural Production
      • MSCH-M 413 Global Media Issues
      • MSCH-P 331 Scriptwriting
      • MSCH-P 335 Production as Criticism
      • MSCH-P 351 Video Field and Post Production
      • MSCH-P 353 Audio Production
      • MSCH-P 354 Program Graphics and Animation
      • MSCH-P 356 TV Studio Production
      • MSCH-P 360 Motion Picture Production
      • MSCH-P 361 Intermediate Motion Picture Production
      • MSCH-P 369 Sound Design
      • MSCH-P 416 Program Analysis and Criticism
      • MSCH-P 433 Video Documentary
      • MSCH-P 434 Documentary Production
      • MSCH-P 435 Documentary Filmmaking: Theory and Practice
      • MSCH-P 436 Advanced Production Workshop 
      • MSCH-P 438 Experiments with the Film Camera
      • MSCH-P 460 Advanced Motion Picture Production
      • MSCH-X 472 Media Internship
      • MSCH-X 473 Undergraduate Full-Time Media Internship
      • MSCH-X 474 Journalism Internship
      • MSCH-X 476 WTIU Production Workshop
      • MSCH-X 478 Field Experiences in Media
      • MSCH-X 490 Projects in Media (no more than three credit hours)
    3. At least one (1) additional course chosen from either list (Studies or Production)
  2. Specialization restrictions: