Cinema & Media Studies Learning Outcomes – Major
- Students will gain a visual literacy in cinema and other media as texts, analyzing in depth how they are put together.
- Students will understand larger contexts for cinema and other media, namely the institutional, economic and socio/political dynamics always underpinning these media texts, most of all from a historical perspective that sheds light on present day conditions.
- Students will understand and critique various theories employed to explain media phenomena, including both aesthetic and cultural theories of cinema, television and other media.
- Students will understand how media intersect with at least one or more key issue such as race, gender, sexual orientation, class, ethnicity, identity, environment, globalization, etc.
- Students will obtain at least some firsthand production experience with these media.
- Students will think critically about film and other media, and effectively communicate this in written, oral, and visual forms.
Cinema & Media Studies Learning Outcomes – Minor
- Students will gain a visual literacy in cinema and other media as texts, analyzing in depth how they are put together.
- Students will understand larger contexts for cinema and other media, namely the institutional, economic and socio/political dynamics always underpinning these media texts, most of all from a historical perspective that sheds light on present day conditions.
- Students will understand how media intersect with at least one or more key issue such as race, gender, sexual orientation, class, ethnicity, identity, environment, globalization, etc.
- Students will think critically about film and other media, and effectively communicate this in written, oral, and visual forms.