Courses - Media & Communication

I. Core (8 credits)
All majors complete

• MECM 101 Introduction to Media and Communication Studies (4), usually before the junior year.
• MECM 261 Critical Approaches to Media (Topics) (4), not later than spring of the junior year.

II. History and Theory of Media Cultures (any 2 courses from the following list, or others approved by the MECM faculty)
Relevant courses include:

• MECM 111 Introduction to the Art of Film (4)
• MECM 211 Screen Genres (4)
• MECM 213 Sports, Media & Culture (4)
• MECM 395 Media Theories (4)
• ARTH 228 After the Modern (4)
• ARTH 324 Gender & Sexuality in Renaissance Art (4)
• ARTH 328 The Modern City, Modernist Art, and Postmodern Film (4)
• AST 211 Contemporary Chinese Film (4)
• ENGL 114 War in Literature and Film (4)
• ENGL 250 Theories of Popular Culture (4)
• ENGL 311 Film and Literature (4)
• HIST 223 Anxiety, Race, and Empire (4)
• HIST 229 U.S. History on Film (4)
• HIST 273 Cyberculture and the Networked Society in the Information Age (4)
• HIST 324 Cold War America (4)
• HIST 328 Gender, Media, and U.S. Culture (4)
• REST 232 Representing Race and Identity in Film (4)
• SOAN 206 Popular Culture (4)
• SOAN 347 Visual Ethnography (3)
• WGS 249 Women Filmmakers (4)
• WGS 341 Gender and Nation (4)

III. Production (1 course from the following list, or others approved by the MECM faculty)
Relevant courses include:

• MECM 202 Visual Storytelling (4)
• MECM 203 Screenwriting (4)
• ART 235 Introduction to Photography (4)
• ART 252 Introduction to Graphic Design (4)
• CS 103 Introduction to Multimedia (4)
• CS 223 Game Programming and Artificial Intelligence (4)

IV. Capstone (4 credits)
All majors complete MECM 495 Senior Seminar (4) in fall of the senior year.

V. Electives

The remaining 6 courses required to make up the 44 credits/11 classes in the major are electives drawn from the list of available courses under the MECM alpha or approved crosslists.  Students may shape their course of study in light of available offerings and their own interests, in consultation with their advisor and the director.

Departmental Honors
A two-semester departmental honors program is available for exceptionally motivated students with unusually strong attainment. A GPA in the major of 3.5 is a minimum requirement for being invited to pursue honors. Current details of the honors process are available from MECM faculty or the MECM program office (HOL 203).

Course Descriptions can be found in the MECM chapter of the University Catalog. 

For more information, email Dr. Piers Britton, Director of  Media & Communication Studies: piers_britton@redlands.edu.