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Media and Society MEDIA AND SOCIETY MEDIA AND SOCIETY The Media and Society program includes, in addition to the study of mass Program Faculty media entertainment, advertising, and Linda Robertson, Media and Society, news and information, the critical and Director historical analysis of literature and the arts. Donna Albro, Peer Education The aim of the combined elements in Lester Friedman, Media and Society the critical study of both mass media and Catherine Gallouët, French and the arts is to include an analysis of the Francophone role of the artist in not only reflecting the Grant Holly, English dominant mythologies of the culture, but Marilyn Jiménez, Africana Studies in reshaping them, of holding them up to Liz Lyon, English scrutiny, of compelling a revision of the Nicola Minnott-Ahl, English human potential. For the same reason, students are expected to engage in self- HWS is among the first liberal arts expression by exploring their creative colleges in the country to offer a major in capacities in at least one of the visual and media studies. From its inception in 1996, plastic arts, writing, dance, or music. the Media and Society Program has had The requirement for “hands on” two main goals: experience is met through courses in 1. To engage students in the critical documentary filmmaking, scriptwriting, analysis of the influence of the mass digital editing, photography, digital design, media on society, from both the socio- and journalism, as well as through the political and cultural/artistic perspectives. requirement that each student complete an 2. To stimulate students to use their internship or practicum related to his or her creative imaginations through self- area of academic interest. expression in writing, videography and editing, the visual and plastic arts, dance REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MAJOR (B.A.) and dance composition, and music and interdisciplinary, 12 courses, plus language music composition. competency. “Media studies” refers to the examina- The Media and Society Program offers an tion of the modern ability to disseminate interdisciplinary major and minor. Media the same message (visual, aural, and/or and Society majors explore four core areas textual) to a mass audience, using before deciding on a concentration. All technologies of reproduction and/ or majors are required to take at least one transmission. course in the creative arts, and to Media studies is an interdisciplinary complete either an internship or a field, drawing upon cultural studies, practicum related to the study of the role psychology, art and literary theory, of the media in society. Majors are sociology, information and propaganda required to complete cognate courses in theory, and economics, especially, American history or social consciousness political economy. The central concern and social theory. The major culminates is the critical analysis of the influence of with a Senior Seminar. the media on society and the individual. To remain in good standing as a major, an While the entertainment and advertis- average of at least 2.0 must be maintained for ing industries are an important subject in all courses that count toward the major. The media studies, equally important is the Senior Seminar must be passed with a C to role of mass media news and information count toward completing the major. outlets as integral to the political process. The internship is graded pass/no pass; 226 MEDIA AND SOCIETY the practicum can be taken for a grade or listed below as approved for the major, as pass/no pass. either under the headings Core Compe- The complete list of requirements for tencies or Concentrations. Minors are not the major are: MDSC 100; one course in required to develop a concentration in a each of four core competencies; four specific area of Media and Society. Minors courses to comprise a concentration may not use any of the courses listed as approved by a program adviser, one of Cognates for the minor. which will be a course which also satisfies a core requirement; competency in research APPROVED COURSES methods (does not require additional The Media and Society Program draws course work; this goal is met through upon courses offered in a number of course work taken for the major as different departments. Some of the courses approved by the adviser); a credit-bearing listed below may be withdrawn by internship or practicum in the area of contributing departments for various communications, artistic production, or reasons and new courses offered in journalism; a Media and Society senior departments may be accepted for the seminar. Media and Society major. Students should In addition to these courses, majors are consult with their advisers for current listings required to take two cognate courses. A of approved courses. cognate course is one that supports the study in the major, but is not a course in the CORE COMPETENCIES mass media or the arts. One cognate course Majors are required to take one course in must be in American history covering a each of four core areas. Minors are period since the Civil War or an approved required to take three courses chosen from course on the subject of the formation of different core areas. The same course may social consciousness (listed below). The be listed under more than one compe- second cognate course must be an approved tency; but one course cannot be used to social theory course (listed below). satisfy more than one of the core compe- Media and Society majors are also tencies numbered 1-4 below. required to demonstrate competence in a foreign language to the 102 level. Core Competency 1. Techniques of Students who have studied a foreign Performance and Creativity language in secondary school may have (majors choose one): Art: Any studio art course met this requirement; students for whom English: Any creative writing course English is a second language may have ENG 308 Screenwriting met this requirement; students with a ENG 178 Acting I certified statement from a counselor or Music: Private Instruction and Ensembles (1/2 credit physician that a learning disability per semester; two semesters required) prevents them from learning a foreign MUS 210 American Musical Theater language may petition for a waiver. MUS 400 Orchestration Dance: Any combination of dance classes for a total Students should consult with their adviser of 2.5 credits or one of the following: about this requirement. DAN 200 Dance Composition I DAN 300 Dance Composition II REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MINOR interdisciplinary, 6 courses Core Competency 2. Use of Imaging MDSC 100; one course each from three Technologies (majors choose one): different core competencies numbered 1- MDSC 300 Making the News 4; any two additional approved courses MDSC 305 Film Editing 227 MEDIA AND SOCIETY Core Competency 3. Critical Analysis or Media ART 240 European Art and Architecture Theory ART 249 Islamic Art and Architecture (majors choose one): ART 252 Japanese Art and Culture ALST 200 Ghettoscapes ART 256 Art of the Russian Revolution ALST 226 Screen Latinos DAN 210 Dance History I ALST 309 Black Cinema DAN 212 Dance History II ALST 310 Black Images/White Myths DAN 214 Dance History III ART 212 Women Make Movies ENG 287 Film Histories I ASN 342 Chinese Cinema ENG 288 Film Histories I ENG 176 Film Analysis I ENG 289 Film Histories III ENG 201 Jane Austen in Film ENG 370 Hollywood on Hollywood ENG 229 Television Histories, Television ENG 229 Television History, Television Narratives Narratives ENG 264 Globalism and Literature ENG 230 Film Analysis II EUST 101 Foundations of European Studies I ENG 233 Art of the Screenplay EUST 102 Foundations of European Studies II ENG 368 Film and Ideology MDSC 205 America in the Seventies ENG 375 Science Fiction MDSC 307 Medicine and Society ENG 376 New Waves MDSC 224 Age of Propaganda I FRE 241 Que sais-je? MDSC 225 Age of Propaganda I FRNE 252 Beyond Colonialism: Maghreb MDSC 303 Social Documentary Cultures and Literatures MUS 135 Music in the Americas: 1750 - 2000 FRNE 395 Society and culture in the Ancien MUS 202 History of Western Art and Music: Régime: Representation of Race Medieval and Renaissance MDSC 204 Imagining the West MUS 203 History of Western Art and Music: MDSC 205 America in the Seventies Baroque and Classical MDSC 307 Medicine and Society MUS 204 History of Western Art and Music: MDSC 310 Covenant with Death Romantic and Modern MDSC 224 Age of Propaganda I MUS 207 Music in American Culture: Jazz MDSC 225 Age of Propaganda II and Popular MDSC 303 Social Documentary MUS 210 American Musical Theater PHIL 220 Semiotics MUS 216 Music of Asia PHIL 230 Aesthetics MUS 217 Folk and Traditional Music of Africa PHIL 260 Mind and Language and the Americas POL 320 Mass Media POL 363 Cyber Politics/Cyber Culture Core Competency 5: Three Research Goals WRRH 250 Talk and Text: Introduction to (integrated into other course work for the major. The Discourse Analysis courses which meet these goals are approved by the adviser) Core Competency 4: Cultural History of the Research goal 1: Use of library, Fine Arts or Mass Media archival, and Internet sources (majors choose one): Research goal 2: Media content ALST 310 Black Images/White Myths ALST 200 Ghettoscapes analysis (qualitative or quantitative) ART 101 Ancient to Medieval Research goal 3: Fieldwork (inter- ART 102 Renaissance to Modern views, reporting, documenting). ART 103 East Asian Art Survey ART 110 Visual Culture CONCENTRATIONS ART 201 African-American Art A concentration for the major consists of ART 208 Greek Art and Architecture 5 courses from any one of the clusters ART 210 Woman as Image and Image-Maker ART 211 Feminism in the Arts below. At least two must be in two ART 221 Early Italian Renaissance Art different disciplines.
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