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 - Modern into Contemporary: Art from 1945-1989
• ARHI 184 PO - Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History
• ARHI 185 PO - 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 or MS 149 PO, Topics in Media Theory I or II.
• 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:

• MS 050 PZ - Language of Film or
• MS 50 PZ - Language of Film or
• LIT 130 CM - Language of Film

 

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

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• One course in film theory such as:

• LIT 103 HM - Third Cinema
• LIT 138 CM - Film and Mass Culture
• LIT 139 CM - Film Theory
• MS 046 PZ - Feminist Documentary Production and Theory
• MS 072 PZ - Women and Film or
• MS 76 PZ - Gender and Genre
• MS 048 PZ - Media Ethnography/Autobiography
• MS 74 PZ - Sound Theory, Sound Practice
• MS 110 PZ - Media and Sexuality
• MS 197 PZ - Media Praxis or
• ARHI 141B PO - Africana Cinema: Through the Documentary Lens

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• LIT 131 CM - Film History I (1925-1965)
• LIT 132 CM - Film History II (1965-Present)
• MS 190 JT - Senior Seminar in Media Studies
• Three appropriate film-oriented electives drawn from the list  of all approved courses

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• MS 191 SC - Senior Thesis in Media Studies or
• MS 191H SC - Honors Senior Thesis in Media Studies

Critical Studies (or Critical Studies: Film Studies option):

Students in this concentration will complete MS 190  JT 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. The Senior Project course will count toward the four electives required for the major. The Senior Thesis (MS 191  SC) must be completed in the spring semester. Students selected to attempt honors will enroll in MS 191H SC - Honors Senior Thesis in Media Studies . For the thesis (MS 191  SC or MS 191H  SC), 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  SC or MS 191H  SC will count as one of the four electives required for the major.

Film/Video and Digital/Electronic:

Students in this concentration will fulfill the requirements for MS 190  JT 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  Senior Project in Media Studies. Spring projects will be supervised by two members of the Media Studies faculty or appropriate affiliated faculty members from the Claremont Colleges. MS 192 SC Senior Project will count toward 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 in Media Studies:

A Scripps student who wishes to graduate with honors in Media Studies must achieve a minimum grade point average of 11.0 (A-) in the major, be selected to participate in the second-semester Senior Project or Honors Senior Thesis, and earn grades of A or A- in both first and second semester senior exercise courses.

• MS 190 JT - Senior Seminar in Media Studies and
• MS 191H SC - Honors Senior Thesis in Media Studies or
• MS 192 SC - Senior Project in Media Studies