Media StudiesMajor

Effective Fall 2020, this program is no longer accepting new majors.

To complete the Media Studies major, students will take at least eleven courses which include:

• seven foundational courses in core areas, and
• four additional courses in any one of four concentrations (A-D); or, the seven courses required for the documentary concentration (E); or, a selection of four courses from different concentrations.

Foundational Courses:

1. FILM 204 Introduction to Media Studies
2. FILM 270 Introduction to Film
3. FILM 208 Digital Media and Culture
4. One course in Media Theory, History and Criticism. Choose From:
   • ENGCW 379 Special Topics - Fifty Shades of Grey: Journalism and Nonfiction
   • Ethics
   • ENGCW385 RW/ HIST 387RW/ AAS 387RW/ AMST 387RW - Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project
   • ENG328W Race, Gender, and Media Making
   • FILM 356 History of American TV
   • FILM 373 Special Topics in Film
   • FILM 380 Video Games
   • FILM 382 Contemporary Film and Media Theory
   • FILM 389 Special Topics in Media
   • FILM 390 Children and the Media
   • FILM 393 Documentary Film
   • FILM 408 Media, Time and Space
   • IDS 216 Visual Culture
   • RUSS 373/FILM 375: The Russian Avant-Garde

5. One course in media making. Choose from:
   • ENG201W/IDS201W: Multimedia Journalism
   • ENGCW 376RW Intermediate Nonfiction -- Long form narrative writing (magazine writing)
   • ENG 380W: Health and Science Writing
   • FILM 106 Photography I
   • FILM 107 Intro to Digital Video**
   • FILM 206r Topics in Photography
   • FILM 300R Filmmaking Practicum
   • FILM 385 Documentary Filmmaking I
   • IDS 385 (when Ethnographic Cinema)
   • POLS 386/FILM 389 Guerrilla Political Videography

6. One course in Socio-Cultural Approaches to Media. Choose from:
   • AAS 190 Freshman Seminar when, Covering Ethnic Communities
   • AAS 275 Black Images in the Media
   • AMST 385W/FILM 389: Special Topics, when Advertising in American Culture
   • ANT 342 Media and Culture
   • ANT 385 Special Topics (when Visual Anthropology)
   • ANT 385 Special Topics (when Ethnographic Cinema)
   • FILM 390 Children and the Media
   • MESAS 319: Media, Islam, Social Movements (Also SOC/FILM/AFS 319)
   • PHIL 351: Media Ethics
   • POLS 379 Politics in Music
   • POLS 490R: Advanced Seminar: Political Communication
   • POLS 490: Cities, Power, and Cinema
   • REL 369R Religion, Film and Media
   • REL 370: Special Topics, when Islam, Media and Pop Culture (Cross listed with FILM 389)
   • SOC 190 Freshman Seminar: (when Advertising: Words and Images)
   • SOC 327 Language and Symbols of Mass Media (also LING 327)
   • SOC 343 Mass Media and Social Influences
   • SOC 383 Advertising: Words and Images (also LING 383)
   • SOC 443S Sociology of Music

7. One 400 level course. Choose from:
   • FILM 401 Film and Media Criticism
   • FILM 403 The Biz
   • FILM 404r Gender in Film and Media
   • FILM 408 (new course): Media, Time and Space
   • POLS 490R: Advanced Seminar: Political Communication
   • POLS 490: Cities, Power, and Cinema
   • SOC 443S: Sociology of Music

Elective Courses and Concentrations

To complete the major choose any four courses listed below. If you would like to pursue a concentration within the major, then four courses must come from the same category for concentrations A-D, or students may complete the seven separate courses for the documentary concentration (E). None of the courses below can count as fulfilling the concentration if it has already fulfilled requirements 4 through 7.

A. Media Theory, History and Criticism (any four not taken in fulfillment of requirement 4 above)

• AMST 321/ HIST 385 American Routes
• ENGCW 379 Special Topics - Fifty Shades of Grey: Journalism and Nonfiction
• Ethics
• ENGCW385 RW/ HIST 387RW/ AAS 387RW/ AMST 387RW - Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project
• ENG328W Race, Gender, and Media Making
• FILM 356 History of American TV
• FILM 373 Special Topics in Film
• FILM 380 Video Games
• FILM 382 Contemporary Film and Media Theory
• FILM 389 Special Topics in Media
• FILM 390 Children and the Media
• FILM 392 Genre Studies
• FILM 393 Documentary Film
• FILM 408 Time Across Media
• IDS 216 Visual Culture
• MESAS 319: Media, Islam, Social Movements (Also SOC/FILM/AFS 319)

B. Media Making (any four not taken in fulfillment of requirement 5 above)

• ENG201W/IDS201W: Multimedia Journalism
• ENGCW 376RW Intermediate Nonfiction -- Long form narrative writing (magazine writing)
• ENG 380W: Health and Science Writing
• FILM106: Photography I
• FILM 107: Intro to Digital Video**
• FILM 206R: Photography II
• FILM 300R Filmmaking Practicum
• FILM 385: Documentary Filmmaking I
• FILM 386: Documentary Filmmaking II
• FILM 399: Filmmaking Internship
• IDS 385/ANT 385: (when Ethnographic Cinema)
• POLS 385/FILM 389: when Guerilla Pol Videography

C. Non-U.S. Media

• ANT 385: (when Visual Anthropology)
• CHN 271WR: Modern China in Films and Fiction
• CHN 360WR/Asia 360WR/WS 360WR: Chinese Women in Film and Fiction
• CHN 394: Screening China
• FILM 395: National Cinemas: Western
• FILM 396: National Cinemas: Non-Western
• GER 340: German Film
• GER 360/FILM 373: Current German Issues
• JPN/EAS 363: Literary and Visual Culture in Japan
• JPN 378W/EAS 378W: Postwar Japan Through its Media
• REL 369R: Religion, Film and Media (when Picturing Tibet)
• RUSS 373/FILM 375: The Russian Avant-Garde

D. Social/Cultural Methods in Media Studies (any 4 not taken in fulfillment of area 6 above)

• AAS 190: Freshman Seminar when, Covering Ethnic Communities
• AAS 275: Black Images in the Media
• ANT 342 Media and Culture
• ANT 385 Special Topics (when Visual Anthropology)
• ANT 385 Special Topics (when Ethnographic Cinema)
• FILM 390: Children and the Media
• POLS 379: Politics in Music
• POLS 385/FILM 373: Media and Politics in Comparative Perspective
• POLS 490R: Advanced Seminar: Political Communication
• POLS 490: Cities, Power, and Cinema
• SOC 190 Freshman Seminar: (when Advertising: Words and Images)
• SOC 327: Language and Symbols of Mass Media (also LING 327)
• SOC 343: Mass Media and Social Influences
• SOC 383: Advertising: Words and Images (also LING 383)
• SOC 443S: Sociology of Music

E. Documentary Studies (students are encouraged to take FILM 106, FILM 107, and FILM 393 early in their coursework, e.g. by the first semester of their junior year)

1. FILM 106: Photography I
2. FILM 107: Intro to Digital Video
3. FILM 393: Documentary Film and Media History
4. Any four of the following courses:
   • ANT 385: Ethnographic Cinema
   • ENGCW 379: Fifty Shades of Grey: Journalism and Non-Fiction Ethics
   • FILM 206R: Photography II
   • FILM 300R: Filmmaking Practicum
   • FILM 385: Documentary Filmmaking I
   • FILM 479: Filmmaking Capstone

*Students are NOT required to do a concentration-this is optional. Any 4 electives listed will complete the major.

**Demand is high for this course, so register early in your course of study. It is also a prerequisite for most other production courses in the Department of Film and Media Studies.