Media Production, BA

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The major in Media Production is for students who wish to study and practice the interdisciplinary craft of creating digital audiovisual and multimedia works.

Learning Outcomes

When students have completed a minor or major in the Media Production Program, they will be able to:

EXPLAIN how media content can reflect and shape cultural conversations and movements.
APPLY ethical considerations to formal creative choices and media production workflows.
APPLY narrative structure and coherent aesthetic intention to information across a variety of digital media platforms.
CREATE compelling images and sounds in layered sequence using professional production and post-production tools.

Foundation

The following classes are required for all MP majors.

Core Production

The following classes are required for all MP majors.

Elective Production

Part 2

All MP majors must take four units from this list of electives.

Studies and Analysis

All MP majors must take six units from this list of electives, four of which must be upper division.

AH 185 - Middle Eastern Cinema
AH 186 - Iranian Cinema
AH 187 - Golden Years of the Japanese Cinema
ANTH 379 - Anthropology of Digital Cultures
ANTH 381 - Visual Anthropology
ART 376 - Art, Technology, and Visual Culture
COMM 304 - Understanding Digital Culture
COMM 308 - Visual Communication
COMM 316 - Advertising and Civic Engagement
COMM 317 - Public Relations
COMM 318 - Communication Policy and Law
COMM 325 - Media, Technologies, & Culture
COMM 326 - Media Research Methods
COMM 363 - Topics in Communication/300-Level
COMM 405 - International Communication
COMM 407 - Political Communication
COMM 458 - Topics in Film
COMM 461 - Communication & Social Justice
COMM 463 - Topics in Communication/400-Level
CS 360 - Tech Ethics
DANCE 201 - Dance and Film
ENGL 353 - Film
ENGL 355 - Korean Cinema
ENGL 356 - Hitchcock
ENGL 357 - Indie Film: Diverse Voices in American Cinema
ENGL 383 - Film Theory
PHIL 382 - Philosophy Goes to the Movies
POL 313 - Politics and the Media
TRS 362 - Theology & Religion in/and/of Film
Note:

SOC 335 will count as Media Production Studies and Analysis Electives when the Special Topic is Sociology of Film or Visual Sociology.

Other courses not on this list may be accepted if the content relates to media studies or analysis. Please contact the Media Production program director to confirm.