Media and Performance Studies (Minor)
The media and performance studies minor provides an interdisciplinary examination of film, video, television, multimedia, and Web 2.0 texts with a primary emphasis on textual interpretation and theory and a secondary focus on production. The program seeks to improve students' fluency with media, both for academic and commercial applications, in order to enhance students' understanding of their major disciplinary field. Students will apply their interdisciplinary knowledge through a capstone project that results in a creative presentation, documentary, or ethnographic visual text, or other multimedia production.
Minor Requirements
| IS 240 | Introduction to Film and Visual Studies * | 3 |
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| EN 240 | Introduction to Film and Visual Studies * | 3 |
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| GMD 404 | Performance Media Lab * | 3 |
Minor Elective Courses
Nine (9) credits (6 outside of the student's major) from the following:
| EN 207 | Theater History * | 3 |
| EN 220 | The Movie or the Book? Narrative Adaptation in the Cinema * | 3 |
| IS 220 | The Movie or the Book? Narrative Adaptation in the Cinema * | 3 |
| EN 321 | Modern Drama * | 3 |
| EN 429 | Studies in Performance * | 3 |
| FA 380 | Movements in Modern Art * | 3 |
Six (6) additional credits outside of the student's major from the following:
| COMM 204 | Video Production: Multimedia Communication | 3 |
| EN 212 | Topics in Acting | 3 |
| EN 270 | Approaches to Creative Writing * | 3 |
| EN 305 | Topics in Creative Writing | 3 |
| FA 103 | Two-Dimensional Design | 3 |
| FA 395 | Advanced 2-D Studio * | 3 |
| GMD 202 | Illustration I * | 3 |
| GMD 203 | Digital Photography | 3 |
| GMD 205 | Video Production: Promotional and Informational Communication | 3 |
| GMD 308 | Web and Social Media Design | 3 |
| GMD 404 | Performance Media Lab * | 3 |