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Understanding Media Studies

Required first-semester graduate lecture course with discussion sections

Understanding Media Studies is a required colloquium for all Media Studies students in their first semester of study. Media Studies Principal Faculty and other invited guests from the University and the wider field of media studies and practice will share their own work and methods, thereby exposing students to the varied dimensions of research and practice in the field, and particularly in our Department. Over the course of the semester, students will meet the instructors, support staff, and colleagues with whom they will work throughout their graduate studies; become familiar with useful University resources; and develop skills and practices that will serve them throughout their graduate studies and, ideally, in their professional careers.

Students will complete several reflective and exploratory exercises leading incrementally toward the completion of a mock thesis or grant proposal or comprehensive academic plan, which will help students to map their own paths through the program and will serve as a useful advising document.

Fall 2011: Syllabus [updated 8/29/11]
Spring 2011: Syllabus
Fall 2008: Syllabus