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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on contemporary media, primarily film and television, from theoretical and critical perspectives. Primary emphasis is given to the specific identifying characteristics of news, advertising and entertainment media and to how those media serve as forums for cultural negotiation in our society. In particular, attention is paid to how media representations of race, class and gender presently exist as both products and producers of contemporary cultures. Prerequisite: Media Studies 160.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the development of selected film genres (such as horror, film noir, and documentary film) from the beginnings of film to the present, assessing the impact of each genre on the cinema of one or more nations. Students examine how genres have been re-imagined in different cultures or time periods and how cultural rituals and myths, icons and archetypes, and hybridization affect the development of genres. Prerequisite: Media Studies 160 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Independent Study
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a capstone to the concentration. Taught as a seminar, it investigates critical and specialized issues in media from multiple and often competing perspectives. Topics change regularly and address a wide range of media-related concerns. Sample topics include media culture, race and media, media use and child development, and the social and political utility of video documentaries. Prerequisite: Media Studies 160 or permission of instructor. Offered Spring Semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive research opportunity, including an introduction to relevant background material, technical instruction, identification of a meaningful project, and data collection. The topic is determined by the faculty member in charge of the course and may relate to his/her research interests. Prerequisite: Determined by individual instructor. Offer based on department decision.
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3.00 Credits
Independent Research
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0.25 Credits
Students explore dictation and singing of intervals, rhythmic patterns, scales, tonal melodies and basic chord progressions. With 113, this course forms the introduction to the music major. Offered Fall Semester.
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0.25 Credits
Building on principles learned in 111, students encounter more advanced rhythmic patterns, tonal melodies and chord progressions. Prerequisites: Music 111 and 113. Offered Spring Semester.
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0.75 Credits
In this course, students explore the fundamentals of music, including the elements of pitch and rhythm, music notation, intervals, triads and inversions, seventh chords, scales, harmonic progression, and basic principles of voice leading. With 111, this course forms the introduction to the music major. Registration for 113 requires concurrent registration in Music 161 unless a student has either passed the Piano I equivalency examination or placed out of Music 161. Offered Fall Semester.
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