MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES

Credits to Graduate: 120     Credits in Major: 36
12 Upper Division Credits in Arts & Humanities FAU Residence Credits: 30
Upper Division Credits: 45

Overall 2.3 GPA required for entry into major
Overall 2.0 GPA must be maintained to remain in major

The Media and Cultural Studies sequence emphasizes the roles that media and other cultural producers, technologies, texts, practices, and receivers play in the processes of construction, maintenance, and change in our information-based, culturally diverse society. It provides students with an interdisciplinary, liberal arts based curriculum that explores the pervasive cultural, political, economic, and behavioral influences these phenomena have in our lives at the individual, group, institutional, and societal levels. Courses examine the history of various elements of media and culture, the organizations that create media and other cultural texts, the political regulation of these organizations, the symbolic nature of and meanings created by those texts, the participation of audiences and other cultural receivers, the social and political contexts in which these interrelate, and the impact of media and other culture on receivers, institutions, and society as a whole. The sequence, including the flexible elective options, can be individually crafted to prepare students for graduate study and academic careers in these or related fields and/or in a more pragmatic direction suitable for such professions as media writing, media programming, media consulting, or media/cultural analysis and criticism.

6 Credits Introductory

MMC 1540
FIL 2000
Intro. Media Studies (REQUIRED)
Film Appreciation (REQUIRED)

6 Credits Disciplinary Core

COM 3342
MMC 4501
SPC 4680
Communication and U.S. Cultural Studies (REQUIRED)
Media Criticism
Rhetorical Criticism

3 Credits Theory

MMC 3403
FIL 3503
SPC 3236
Mass Communication Theory
Film Theory
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

15 Credits Critical/Analytical

COM 3014
COM 3500
COM 4332
FIL 4364
FIL 4036
FIL 4037
FIL 4056
FIL 4832
FIL 4851
JOU 4004
MMC 3601
MMC 3709
MMC 4200
MMC 4263
MMC 4301
MMC 4608
RTV 4400
RTV 4403
RTV 4412
RTV 4507
SPC 3710
SPC 4540
SPC 4712
SPC 4718
WST 3305
WST 3325
WST 4337
Communication, Gender, and Language
Political Communication
Studies in New Media
Documentary Film and Video
Film to the 1940s (Prerequisite FIL 2000)
Film since the 1940s (Prerequisite FIL 2000)
Women and Film
Horror Film
Film Criticism (Prerequisite FIL 2000)
U.S. Journalism
Minorities and the Media
Sexual Minorities and the Media
Mass Communication Law and Regulation
Media, Society and Technology
International Communication
Public Opinion Modernity
Television Studies
U.S. Telecommunication Industry
Gender and Television
Television Programming
Intercultural Communication
Persuasion and Propaganda
Gender, Race, and Communication
Ethnicity and Communication
Sex, Myth, Power in Popular Culture
Woman, Violence and Resistance
Sex, Violence and Hollywood

*Note: Any upper division course (3000/4000) from the Core and Theory/History categories not already used to fulfill other requirements may be applied to the Critical/Analytical category.
Special Topics (COM 4930), Directed Independent Study (COM 4905), or Communication Study Abroad may be approved by an advisor to fulfill required credits in the Theory or Critical/Analytical categories.

6 Credits Interdisciplinary Electives**

Any upper level course offered by the Department of Communication
AMH 4302
AMH 4303
ANT 3391
ANT 4407
ANT 4414
ENG 4114
ITT 3520
ITT 3522
JPT 2520
LIT 3312
LIT 3333
LIT 3344
MUH 3013
MUH 3023
MUH 3801
PHI 4800
POS 4258
SPT 4720
SYD 4700
SYD 4800
SYD 4814
SYO 4100
SYO 4530
SYP 4630
SYP 4650
THE 4370
WST 3640
American Material Culture to 1860
American Material Culture from 1860
Anthology of Film
Human Impulses
Cultural Anthropology
Literature and Film
Italian Cinema from Text to Screen
Italian/American Cinema (Prerequisite Golden-Rule writing)
Japanese Literature and Cinema
Fantasy Literature
Science Fiction
Literature of Adolescence
Detective Fiction
Rock and Roll in American Society
Jazz in American Society
Aesthetics and Art Theory
Political Film and Fiction
Spanish Literature and Film
Race and Ethnic Relations
Gender and Society
Gender, Power, and Relationships
Family and Society
Class, Status, and Power
Sociology of Popular Culture
Sociology of Sport
Drama on Stage and Screen
Sex and Gender in American Culture

**Note: Upper division courses (3000/4000) offered by the School of Communication & Multimedia Studies CANNOT be used to fulfill other requirements.