Media Studies

Choose to focus on one of three Media Studies tracks: Film/Video, Digital/Electronic Media, or Critical Studies. 

What You Will Learn

1. 如何成为以社区为基础、地方和全球媒体制作的积极参与者.  
2. The relationships between Media Studies theory, history, and practice. 
3. How to create non-traditional and non-industrial forms of media production. 
4. A wide-ranging knowledge of media forms. 
5. Understand how Media Studies connects to other disciplines. 
6. How to participate and build a media arts community through curation, distribution, and community involvement. 
7. How to prepare for a life of media practice. 

The Media Studies major requires the completion of 11 courses, with a concentration in Film/Video, Digital/Electronic Media, or Critical Studies. All Media Studies majors will complete the following courses. 被列为满足每项要求的课程可能会发生变化，经课程委员会批准，其他课程可能会计入这些要求.

1. One introductory critical/theoretical course:
    
   • Introduction to Media Studies: MS 049 PZ , MS 049 PO , or MS 049 SC
   • Language of Film: MS 050 PZ , MS 050 HM , or LIT 130 CM
   • MS 051 PO – Introduction to Digital Media Studies
2. One introductory production course:
    
   • ART 020 PO – Black and White Photography
   • ART 021 PO – Foundations of 2D Design
   • ART 141 SC – Introduction to Digital Imaging   
   • ART 143 SC – Digital Color Photography
   • ART 145 SC – Beginning Photography
   • ART 148 SC – Introduction to Video
   • MS 082 PZ – Introduction to Video
   • MS 182 HM – Introduction to Video Production
3. One course in media history:
    
   • LIT 131 CM – Film History (1925-1965)
   • LIT 132 CM – Film History (1965-Present)
   • LIT 134 CM – Special Studies in Film
   • MS 045 PZ – Documentary Media
   • MS 079 PZ – Silent Film
   • MS 091 PZ – History of American Broadcasting
   • MS 100 AA – Asian Americans in Media
4. One course in media theory:
    
   • ART 181 SC – Topics in Art Theory
   • ART 181G SC – From Beauty to the Abject
   • ART 183 SC – Feminist Concepts & Strategies
   • ARHI 141B PO – Africana Cinema Through the Documentary Lens
   • ENGL 118 PO – Nature of Narrative: Fiction, Film
   • LIT 103 HM -Third Cinema
   • LIT 138 CM – Film and Mass Culture
   • MS 046 PZ – Feminist Documentary
   • MS 074 PZ – Sound Theory, Sound Practice
   • MS 110 PZ – Media & Sexuality
   • MS 147B PO – Body, Representation, Desire
   • MS 149A PO – Marxism & Cultural Studies
   • MS 197 PZ – Media Praxis
5. A senior seminar:
    
   • MS 190 JT – Senior Seminar

每个学生还将完成以下六门课程中的一门:

Film/Video

6. One intermediate or advanced film/video production class.
7. One additional course in media history, as listed above.
8. –11. Four appropriate electives, 从以下所有批准的课程列表中抽取(注意，Pitzer硕士专业必须选择MS 194 PZ -媒体艺术促进社会正义, or MS 196 PZ – Media Internship, as one of their electives) or MS 197 PZ – Media Praxis

Digital/Electronic Media

6. An intermediate or advanced digital production course.
7. One course in 20th or 21st–century art history:
   ARHI 181 SC – Art from 1945–1989
   现代主义，反现代主义，后现代主义:北美艺术的社会史
   ARHI 185 SC – History of Photography
   ARHI 186T PO – Art and Time
8. –11. Four appropriate electives, 从以下所有批准的课程列表中抽取(注意，Pitzer硕士专业必须选择MS 194 PZ -媒体艺术促进社会正义, or MS 196 PZ – Media Internship, as one of their electives) or MS 197 PZ – Media Praxis

Critical Studies

6. One additional media theory course, as listed above. 两门必需的媒体理论课程之一必须是MS 147 A-C PO或MS 149 A-C PO媒体理论主题I或II.
7. One additional course in media history, as listed above.
8. –11. Four appropriate electives, 从以下所有批准的课程列表中抽取(注意，Pitzer硕士专业必须选择MS 194 PZ -媒体艺术促进社会正义, or MS 196 PZ – Media Internship , as one of their electives) or MS 197 PZ – Media Praxis

Critical Studies: Film Studies Option

希望强调电影研究的学生应该遵循批判研究的轨道, tailoring their major by selecting the following courses:

1. MS 050 PZ – Introduction to Film or LIT 130 CM – Language of Film
2. MS 082 PZ – Introduction to Video; ART 148 SC – Introduction to Video; or MS 182 HM – Introduction to Video Production.
3. MS 147 A-C PO Topics in Media Theory 1 ; or MS 149 A-C PO Topics in Media Theory II
4. One course in film theory, such as: LIT 103 HM – Third Cinema.; LIT 138 CM – Film and Mass Culture ; LIT 139 CM – Film Theory ; MS 046 PZ – Feminist Documentary; MS 074 PZ – Sound Theory, Sound Practice; MS 110 PZ – Media & Sexuality; MS 197 PZ – Media Praxis; or ARHI 141B PO – Africana Cinema Through the Documentary Lens.
5. –6. LIT 131 CM -电影史(1925-1965)和LIT 132 CM -电影史(1965 -至今)
    
6. MS 190 JT – Senior Seminar
7. –11. 从以下所有被批准的课程列表中选择四门合适的电影选修课程(注意，Pitzer硕士专业必须选择MS 194 PZ -媒体艺术促进社会正义), or MS 196 PZ – Media Internship, as one of their electives) or MS 197 PZ – Media Praxis

Senior Exercise

高级练习包括一个专题高级研讨会，由每个专业的教师在秋季学期联合教授. 这个研讨会要求学生把他们所学课程的各个方面结合起来, 制作一个适当的最终研讨会项目，展示他们对所学领域的掌握以及批判性和创造性实践的形式. 

During this seminar, 所有媒体研究专业的高年级学生都可以选择为第二学期的高年级专题撰写一份提案. 这些提案将由媒体研究学院进行审查，被选中的学生将在两名媒体研究学院成员或来自克莱蒙特学院的适当附属教师的监督下继续完成一个独立的项目. 

高级专题课程将被计入本专业必修的四门选修课.

Honors

Media Studies majors with at least a 3.将邀请累积平均分达到5分的学生参加毕业设计或论文评审. 高年级专题达到“a”的学生将被推荐到媒体研究领域小组获得荣誉.

学生必须完成两个专业的要求，包括任何论文或荣誉要求. 通常情况下，要同时满足两个领域的要求，最多只能选两门课程.

For combined majors, course requirements include: 

• One introductory critical/theoretical Media Studies course
• One production course
• One media theory course
• The Senior Seminar
• Four additional Media Studies courses

The combined major must reflect a coherent integration of the two fields.

A minor in Media Studies requires completion of six graded courses, which must include the following:

• One introductory critical/theoretical Media Studies course
• One introductory media production course
• One course in media history
• One course in media theory
• One media service or media internship
• One elective in Media Studies