Media Studies Major

Film/Video

• One intermediate or advanced film/video production class.
• One additional course in media history, as listed above.
• Four appropriate electives, drawn from the list  of all approved courses.
• MS 190 JT - Senior Seminar in Media Studies

Digital/Electronic Media

• One intermediate or advanced digital production course.

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• One course in twentieth or twenty-first century art history:

• ARHI 181 PZ - Art from 1945-1989
• ARHI 184 PO - Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History of North American Art
• ARHI 185 SC - History of Photography

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• Four appropriate electives, drawn from the list  of all approved courses.
• MS 190 JT - Senior Seminar in Media Studies

Critical Studies

• One additional media theory course, as listed above. One of the two required media theory courses must be  MS 147 PO , MS 148A PO , or  MS 149 PO .
• One additional course in media history, as listed above.
• Four appropriate electives, drawn from the list  of all approved courses.
• MS 190 JT - Senior Seminar in Media Studies

Critical Studies: Film Studies Option

Students desiring an emphasis in Film Studies should follow the Critical Studies track, tailoring their major by selecting the following courses:

One introduction critical/theoretical course

• MS 050 Introduction to Film  at PZ or PO, or
• LIT 130 CM Introduction to Film  

One introduction production course

• MS 082 PZ , or MS 182 HM , or ART 148 SC Introduction to Video Art  

• One course in film theory such as:

• ARHI 141B PO - Africana Cinema: Through the Documentary Lens
• LIT 103 HM - Third Cinema
• LIT 131 CM - Film History I (1925-1965)
• LIT 132 CM - Film History II (1965-Present)
• LIT 138 CM - Film and Mass Culture
• MS 046 PZ - Feminist Documentary Production and Theory
• MS 074 PZ - Sound Theory, Sound Practice
• MS 110 PZ - Media and Sexuality
• MS 197 PZ - Media Praxis
• Three appropriate film-oriented electives drawn from the list  of all approved courses

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• MS 190 JT - Senior Seminar in Media Studies

Critical Studies (or Critical Studies: Film Studies option)

Students in this concentration must complete MS 190 JT Senior Seminar in Media Studies  in the fall of their senior year. Critical Studies students will work on a significant writing project that may be used in conjunction with their senior thesis. This course fulfills the Scripps Senior Exercise requirement for students in the critical studies track. Selected students will be allowed to attempt honors in the spring by enrolling in MS 191 JT Senior Thesis in Media Studies . For the thesis (MS 191 JT), two readers will be required: one must be a member of the Media Studies faculty or affiliated faculty; the second reader may be from an appropriate discipline that reflects the content or theme of the work (e.g., history, literature, a foreign language, gender and women’s studies, and so forth); one of the two readers must be a Scripps faculty member.  MS 191 JT will count as one of the four electives required for the major.

Film/Video and Digital/Electronic

Students in this concentration must complete MS 190 JT Senior Seminar in Media Studies  in the fall of their senior year. During this course film/video and digital/electronic concentrators will complete an approved project (film, video, printed matter, installation, etc.) and a major paper about their work. This course fulfills the Scripps Senior Exercise requirement for students in the film/video and digital/electronic tracks. Selected students will be allowed to attempt honors in the spring by enrolling in MS 192 JT Senior Project in Media Studies . Spring projects will be supervised by members of the Media Studies faculty from the Claremont Colleges. MS 192 JT Senior Project will count as one of the four electives required for the major.

Dual Majors

Students combining Media Studies with a second major intending to complete a single senior thesis (or honors thesis/project) must integrate the skills and knowledge of both disciplines. The thesis (or honors project/thesis) must be cooperatively reviewed, read and graded by one faculty reader from each discipline; one of the two readers must be a Scripps faculty member. Spring enrollment will be in ID 191D . 

Honors Requirements

A Scripps student who wishes to graduate with honors in Media Studies must:

1. Achieve a minimum grade point average of 11.0 (A-) in the major;
2. Be selected to participate in the second-semester Senior Project or Senior Thesis; and
3. Earn grades of A or A- on their fall and spring thesis projects.

• MS 190 JT Senior Seminar in Media Studies 
• MS 191 JT Senior Thesis in Media Studies  
• MS 192 JT Senior Project in Media Studies