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| MDST 1559 | New Course in Media Studies (3.00) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Media Studies. Course was offered Summer 2011 | |
| MDST 2000 | Introduction to Media Studies (4.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Introduces students to the topics, themes, and areas of study that are central to an understanding of media in contemporary society. Focuses on the forms, institutions, functions, and impact of media on local, national, and global communities. |
| MDST 2010 | Introduction to Digital Media (4.00) |
| The history, theory, practice and understanding of digital media. Provides a foundation for interrogating the relation of digital media to contemporary culture and understanding the function, design, and use of computers. | |
| MDST 2100 | Media, Culture and Society (3.00) |
| Explores the relationships among various forms of mass communication, social institutions and other dimensions of social life from a sociological perspective. Course was offered Fall 2009 | |
| MDST 2200 | Introduction to Film (3.00) |
| The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the variety of cinematic forms and genres as well as the history and theories behind them. Class work will include lecture and discussion groups.
Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| MDST 2440 | Language and Cinema (3.00) |
| Looks historically at speech and language in Hollywood movies, including the technological challenges and artistic theories and controversies attending the transition from silent to sound films. Focuses on the ways that gender, racial, ethnic, and national identities are constructed through the representation of speech, dialect, and accent. Introduces semiotics but requires no knowledge of linguistics, or film studies. | |
| MDST 2502 | Special Topics in Film Genre (3.00) |
| This course will offer historical and critical perspectives on a selected film genre each semester. Genres might include Noir, war, romance, musicals, gangster, New Wave, etc. | |
| MDST 2559 | New Course in Media Studies (3.00) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Media Studies. | |
| MDST 2700 | News Writing (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Introductory course in news writing, emphasizing editorials, features, and reporting. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| MDST 2810 | Cinema As An Art Form (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | A course in visual thinking; introduces film criticism, concentrating on classic and current American and non-American films. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Fall 2009 |
| MDST 3000 | Theory and Criticism of Media (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course introduces students at the beginning of the major to theoretical and critical literature in the field. Topics range from the psychological and sociological experience of media, interpretation and analysis of media forms and aesthetics, theories of audience and reception, anthropological approaches to media as a cultural force, and contemporary theories of media from humanities and social sciences perspectives. The goal of the course is to provide a foundation for thinking critically about media and to give them a sense of media studies as a critical and theoretical field. Restricted to Media Studies majors. |
| MDST 3050 | History of Media (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This is a survey, lecture-format, course on the history of media forms, institutions, and technology from the origins of writing, invention of print technology, through the development of digital media. Attention to the specific characteristics of individual media, the changing role of media as a force in culture, and the continually transforming institutions and business of media will all be touched on. The role of media forms in the creation of pubic discourse and the social controls on media through censorship, legal constraints, and economic policies will also be examined, largely from within the context of the United States. Students will create a case study of a media work or artifact from a historical perspective. Prerequisite: MDST 2010 and 2000, or permission of instructor. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| MDST 3100 | Film and Television in the 1960s (3.00) |
| This is a course on film and television in the United States in the 1960s meant to introduce students to the specific problems attached to understanding media as force for social change within a particular decade of American life. The course has a strong emphasis on cultural history and theory as well as on the close reading of media artifacts in film and television from the 1960s. The course requires considerable commitment to viewing time as well as readings, writing, and research. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or permission of instructor. | |
| MDST 3102 | Copyright, Culture, and Commerce (3.00) |
| In this course, we will discuss one of the most powerful social, cultural, economic and political institutions of our day: intellectual property (IP). How did we arrive at the notion that creative works and ideas can be owned, bought and sold like tangible commodities? What impact does this concept have on the way we view the world? How does it help us achieve our social goals, and how does it present obstacles to reaching those goals? | |
| MDST 3104 | News and the Construction of Reality (3.00) |
| The course examines the relationship between news and reality, utilizing theories of social construction. With this as our framework, we will then use various critical perspectives to examine the way news 'reality' is constructed, from the discursive and semiotic frameworks used to present current events as 'stories' to how journalists make decisions about what is news, to the political economic factors that structure news form and content. | |
| MDST 3105 | Latina/o Media Studies (3.00) |
| This course is designed to introduce students to critical analyses of media texts, media industries, and media audiences that help explain the social, political, economic, and cultural locations of Latinas/os in America. Course was offered Spring 2012 | |
| MDST 3106 | History of U S Broadcasting (3.00) |
| This course examines U.S. broadcasting in historical perspective, not only as an industry, but as a vital component of American culture and everyday life. We will examine the technological, social, political, industrial and cultural forces influencing the development of broadcast media and we will link these forces to the programs created and the audiences served. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or permission of instructor Course was offered Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| MDST 3140 | Mass Media and American Politics (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Examines the role of mass media in the political process including such topics as print and broadcast news, media and election campaigns, political advertising, and media effects on public opinion and political participation. Course was offered Fall 2012 |
| MDST 3201 | New German Cinema (3.00) |
| Examines German art cinema from the 1960s-1980s, focusing on modernist aesthetics and filmic responses to major historical events in post-war Germany. Films by Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Kluge, Sander, von Trotta, and others. Course was offered Spring 2012 | |
| MDST 3205 | New Latin American Cinema (3.00) |
| This course provides a historical and critical perspective on Latin American Cinema (LAC), with an emphasis on LAC's relationship to Third Cinema, revolutionary cinema, and contemporary progressive filmic cinematic forms and traditions. | |
| MDST 3206 | Documentary Film (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | The course examines the different ways documentary filmmakers have attempted to represent reality. The course surveys the development of different 'modes' of documentary and the different ways these modes claim representational authority. Throughout, we will be conscious of the particular truth claims of documentary and the ethical issues involved in filming real people. Course was offered Fall 2012, Spring 2010 |
| MDST 3300 | Global Media (3.00) |
| Examines the dynamic global transformations in print, broadcast, and digital media in an international and comparative context. Considers historical, institutional, and textual factors that impact media in local and global contexts. Examines the critical role of media in the long history of globalization and focuses on a number of cultural, technological, and economic issues addressed by media and globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2012 | |
| MDST 3306 | Sexuality, Gender, Class and Race in the Teen Film (3.00) |
| The focus of this class will be on viewings and analyses of films featuring images of teens produced between 1930 and the present, focusing on the following questions: what is adolescence (and how has it been defined in American film)? What is the range of experience that characterizes American adolescence across gender, race, and class lines? How does it make sense to think about the social influence of films on individuals and society? | |
| MDST 3402 | War and the Media (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course examines media coverage of American wars from World War I to the present. Study of the evolution in media coverage of war provides an ideal vantage point for understanding the changing nature of warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries, war's impact on American society, and the ways in which political elites have attempted to mobilize public support for foreign conflicts. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission. |
| MDST 3404 | Democratic Politics in the New Media Environment (3.00) |
| This course examines the ways a changing media system is altering the dynamics of public discourse and democratic politics in the United States. Throughout the course we will critically analyze the ways in which scholars from a wide range of disciplines have studied the connection between media and politics, the methods they have employed, and the validity of their findings and approaches in the new media environment in which we now live. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| MDST 3405 | Media Policy and Law (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course examines the constitutional, legal and regulatory foundations common to print, broadcast media and the Internet. An overview of topics such as libel, invasion of privacy, obscenity and copyright helps students understand forces that shape news and information they receive and prepares them to use media more effectively as citizens, voters and entrepreneurs in an increasingly complex multimedia world. Course was offered Fall 2012 |
| MDST 3406 | The Wire: Understanding Urban America Through Television at Its Best (3.00) |
| This class explores HBO's The Wire as an examination of race, class, and economic change in urban America. We examine the series as a creative work which balances a commitment to realism with the demands of television drama. Students will view episodes of The Wire and read material on urban America, the changing contours of television, and the series itself. Course was offered Spring 2013 | |
| MDST 3410 | Media Ethics (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course provides students a familiarity with the terrain of moral philosophy, improves students' awareness of the complex ethical issues and dilemmas in journalism and other areas of mass media, and engages students in the process of critical thinking, moral reasoning and problem solving in media communications. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission. |
| MDST 3500 | Topics in the History of Media (3.00) |
| This course serves to fulfill the History of Media requirement in Media Studies. Topics have historical breadth and cover the historical development of media institutions, technology, or forms in areas of television, journalism, graphic media, film, print and publication history, digital media or other relevant areas. These courses may be repeated for credit if course content is sufficiently distinct to merit. Decision about repeated credit is at the discretion of the Director of Media Studies. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission. | |
| MDST 3501 | Special Topics in Directors and Auteurs (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course will offer historical, comparative, and critical perspectives on a selected major directors and auteurs each semester. Directors might include Hitchcock, Welles, Heckerling, Ray, Speilberg, Renoir, Truffaut, etc. |
| MDST 3502 | Special Topics in Film Genre (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course will offer historical and critical perspectives on a selected film genre each semester. Genres might include Noir, war, romance, musicals, gangster, New Wave, etc. Course was offered Spring 2013, January 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 |
| MDST 3503 | Special Topics - Issues and Controversies in Media (3.00) |
| This course will consider recent and current controversies in media and media studies. It surveys a series of "hot" topics within media. In each case it examines issues both historically and theoretically. The purpose of the course is to provide students with the tools and habits of thought to delve into the background and issues surrounding controveries so that the shallow presentation of the controversy does not remain the dominant frame. | |
| MDST 3559 | New Course in Media Studies (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Media Studies. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, January 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| MDST 3600 | Women and Television (3.00) |
| Examines how television addresses women, how it represents women, and how women respond to the medium. Explores the relationship between the female audience and television by focusing on both contemporary and historical issues. Areas of particular concern include: how women have responded to television as technology; how specific genres have targeted women; how female-focused specialty channels have addressed women; and how specific programming and genres have mediated the changing status of women from the 1950s to the present. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission. | |
| MDST 3601 | Screening History: Media and Cultural Memory (3.00) |
| The overall goal of the course is for students to recognize the ways in which film and TV representations of history are constructed through struggles in the present. Students will evaluate different narrative and formal strategies used to remember the past for their ideological, historical, ethical and commercial implications. We will discuss the uses of the past in the present, including nostalgia and the politics of counter-memory. Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| MDST 3602 | Television, New Media, and Society (3.00) |
| For the last 60 years, TV has been one of the most important cultural forms in the American mediascape. Mindful of this past, this course will explore contemporary issues in television studies as we enter the digital age. How does time-shifting technology fundamentally alter our conceptions of TV? What does Hulu mean for the television industry? What does the emergence of 'quality TV' imply imply aboutTV's rich past as ashared cultural product? | |
| MDST 3620 | World Cinema (3.00) |
| This course offers a survey of the cinemas of Europe, Africa, Central and South America, the Middle East, India, and Asia, with an introduction to the film histories and stylistic tendencies of each region. Explores classical, avant-garde, and 'third cinema' aesthetics, post-colonial theory, and transnational filmmaking. Equivalent course to GETR 3620. Students in GETR section focus on comparative topics related to German film. Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| MDST 3700 | Newswriting II (3.00) |
| This advanced newswriting course trains students to practice 'point-of-view' journalism, and to understand it as a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of 'objectivity' on the part of the news media.
Course was offered Summer 2012 | |
| MDST 3701 | New Media Culture (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | A survey of issues in the study of new media and of new media artifacts. Objects studied may include films with digital special effects, digital animation, digital video, video games, digital art, internet art, and others. Theories of new media, media art, media change. Taught primarily via discussion with some lectures. Short papers, class participation, final project. Prerequisite: one course in Media Studies, English, Art History, or a related discipline. Course was offered Spring 2012 |
| MDST 3703 | Introduction to the Digital Liberal Arts (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Students will gain a practical and critical introduction to key technologies that are shaping research, innovation, and critical thinking across the liberal arts curriculum: specific technologies, including a programming language, that will empower them to better envision and develop technology-mediated projects in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Students will reflect on the history and discourse in these areas. |
| MDST 3705 | Code, Language, and Media (3.00) |
| Introduction to the theory and practice of the database as media form in the context of the digital liberal arts. Students review critical literature about databases, study examples of their use in projects from a variety of disciplines, and engage in the actual design of a database application as a course project. Topics include cross-cultural modes of classification, data models, big data, visualization, and building web-based databases. Course was offered Spring 2013 | |
| MDST 3800 | Guided Independent Study in Media Studies (1.00 - 3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Provides an opportunity for students to get credit for advanced, independent projects and field work, including extra-mural sponsored projects and internships, in the area of media studies. Students must put a proposal together for the project with a faculty sponsor, which must be approved by the add/drop deadlines. Application forms and guidelines may be obtained in the Media Studies office. Restricted to Media Studies majors. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| MDST 3804 | Scriptwriting for Film & TV (3.00) |
| This practicum will examine the dynamics of writing for film and television and aid students in the creation and development of orignial story ideas. The course will focus on the creative aspects of writing, as well as the structural aspects within the Hollywood context. Course was offered Summer 2012 | |
| MDST 3809 | New Media in New York (3.00) |
| How do the contemporary media industries work? How did they develop in this fashion? How can an analysis of the 'business of entertainment' enable a greater understanding of contemporary media aesthetics and culture? Course was offered January 2013, January 2012 | |
| MDST 3830 | History of Film I (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Analyzes the development of the silent film, 1895 to 1928; emphasizes the technical and thematic links between national schools of cinema art and the contributions of individual directors. Includes weekly film screenings. |
| MDST 3840 | History of Film II (3.00) |
| Analyzes the development of film art from the inception of sound to the 1950s. Includes weekly film screenings. Pre-requisites: DRAM 2810 or 3830, or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2012, Spring 2010 | |
| MDST 3850 | History of Film III (3.00) |
| A history of narrative, documentary and experimental film, 1955-77. Developments in the aesthetics of film are examined in the context of socio-economic, political and cultural conditions specific to different historical moments. Includes weekly film screenings. Prerequisite: DRAM 3830, 3840, or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2013, Spring 2011 | |
| MDST 4000 | Media Theory and Methods (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | An introduction to advanced theory and research methods in Media Studies. Intended as a foundation for thesis work to be conducted in a student's fourth year of undergraduate study (usually to fulfill Distinguished Majors Program requirements). Covers subjects such as historiography and proper use of historical records, survey methodology and ethics, and ethnographic methods. Prerequisite: MDST 3000. |
| MDST 4101 | Privacy & Surveillance (3.00) |
| Can we preserve dignity and privacy in the age of Facebook? This seminar will consider the history and current applications of technologies & cultures of surveillance. How & why did we get to the point where almost all of our activities leave a trace? What sorts of laws and policies do we need to protect our sense of personal integrity? Students will conduct two brief oral presentations (accompanied by a video) & produce a 20-page research paper. | |
| MDST 4102 | Qualitative Methods in Media Audience Research (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course is designed to be a practical introduction to how to do audience research in the field of culturally-oriented communication study. The primary work students will be doing is to prepare research projects illustrating the in-depth application of one (or possibly multiple) methods of research employed in studying the cultural audience. Course was offered Spring 2011 |
| MDST 4103 | Representing Violence (3.00) |
| The course will discuss the relationship between the mediation of different types of violence and the cultures of (in)justice where these representations exist. Central concerns are how different representational practices construct violence as public or private, proximate or distant, and the challenge of representing traumatic violence. Course was offered Fall 2010 | |
| MDST 4105 | Media and Citizenship (3.00) |
| This course provides a critical perspective on the relationships of media to citizenship. It asks questions central to explaining the role of media in political and national life, including the following: What notions of national and political membership are forwarded by mainstream media? What media spaces are viable for the political agency of racial, sexual, and economic minorities and how do these spaces work? Course was offered Fall 2012 | |
| MDST 4106 | Media and the Kennedy Era (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course examines mass media 'network television, journalism, advertising, cinema' both during the Kennedy years and after to explore the impact, ideas, ideals, and iconography of this presidency. Prerequisites: MDST 2000 or permission of instructor |
| MDST 4107 | Feminism and the Public Sphere (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This class will examine the normative basis of the public sphere and critiques of its current structure and ask: What would a more inclusive vision of political participation and communication look like? In attempting to build an answer, we will examine a number of works on communication ethics, politics and media, with an emphasis on feminist and queer scholarship. |
| MDST 4108 | Media, Drugs, and Violence in Latin America (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course will give you a critical understanding of the complex relationships between social violence, drug cartels, media, and Latin American nations. Together we will wrestle with the way Mexican, Colombian, and Brazilian drug violence has impacted and shaped new artistic forms and media practices that confront or, complexly, support the violence. |
| MDST 4109 | Civil Rights Movement and the Media (3.00) |
| Course examines the crucial relationship between the Civil Rights Movement and mass media from 1950s through early 1970s, looking at a variety of media forms: Hollywood cinema, network television, mainstream newspapers, photojournalism, the black press, and news as primary documents that can tell us something about American race relations during this period and how the nation responded to challenges posed by a powerful social change movement. | |
| MDST 4200 | Sex and Gender Go to the Movies (3.00) |
| This course will examine the ways in which different mass media help to define our cultural ideas about gender differences and the ways in which feminist scholars have responded to these definitions by criticizing existing media images and by creating some alternatives of their own. The course will examine the notion that the mass media might influence our development as gendered individuals and consider different forms of feminist theory. | |
| MDST 4301 | Global Indigenous Media (3.00) |
| Close study of contemporary media produced by members of indigenous communities worldwide. Readings in media studies, critical theory, and critical anthropology. Seminar with presentations, short papers, and a research paper. Prerequisite: one course in Media Studies, English, Anthropology, or a related discipline. | |
| MDST 4559 | New Course in Media Studies (1.00 - 4.00) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Media Studies. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| MDST 4700 | Theory of New Media (3.00) |
| A seminar on the theoretical study of new and/or digital media. Topics such as digital representations of history, culture, race, gender, identity, and language; the nature of new media; technological changes in media; hypertext as medium; online community. Some close readings of new media objects. Short papers, class participation, and a final paper. Prerequisite: one course in Media Studies, English, or a related discipline. Course was offered Spring 2013 | |
| MDST 4703 | Technology and Media (3.00) |
| This class will explore various social, cultural, legal, and political issues that have arisen in recent years as a result of new communicative technologies. The two main technological changes that will concern us are the digitization of information and culture and the rise of networks within society and politics. | |
| MDST 4801 | Introduction to Documentary Production (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | Focuses on the elements of documentary productions, including theory, ethics, and technologies. Along with writing assignments, student will produce their own short documentaries using mini DVD cameras and non-linear systems and non-linear editing systems. Instructor permission. |
| MDST 4802 | Intermediate Documentary Production (3.00) |
| An advanced level course that focuses on the elements and considerations that factor into documentary productions with emphasis on aspects dealing with the planning and execution of creating a documentary film. Instructor permission. | |
| MDST 4900 | Media Studies Colloquium (1.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This largely student-run and student-led discussion and activity seminar focuses on current issues in Media Studies. It also serves as a clearinghouse and resource-sharing space for Media Studies majors. Third and fourth year majors gather once a week in an informal environment to discuss a mutually agreed-upon topic, engage in specific projects, or listen to presentations by invited speakers or other students. |
| MDST 4960 | Advanced Independent Projects in Media Studies (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course is designed to allow students to pursue independent research and study of a topic that is not contained within the course offerings of Media Studies. Restricted to Media Studies majors. Course was offered Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| MDST 4970 | Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing or Research Project (3.00) |
| Independent research, writing or production under the supervision of the faculty DMP thesis readers, toward the DMP thesis or project. Prerequisite: Acceptance to the Media Studies DMP. | |
| MDST 4980 | Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing or Research Project (3.00) |
| Writing of a thesis or production or a project with appropriately researched documentation, under the supervision of the faculty DMP thesis readers or project supervisor. | |
| MDST 5501 | Advanced Special Topics in Media Studies (1.00 - 4.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | This course will offer critical perspectives on selected contemporary issues related to new media. Topics may include media in industry, education, politics, culture, and socio-economics. This course is open to undergraduate and graduate students. |
| MDST 7559 | New Course in Media Studies (1.00 - 4.00) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Media Studies. Course was offered Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| MDST 7703 | Introduction to the Digital Liberal Arts (3.00) |
| Offered Fall 2013 | An historical, critical, and practical introduction to technologies and ideas that are shaping teaching, research, publication, and collaboration across the liberal arts curriculum. Topics include hypertext, remediation, graphesis, ontology, and cultural analytics. Students study specifc cases and technologies, develop technology-mediated projects in a collaborative settings, and keep an online journal of their reflections on the material. |
| MDST 7705 | Code, Language, and Media (3.00) |
| Introduction to the theory and practice of the database as media form in the context of the digital liberal arts. Students review critical literature about databases, study examples of their use in projects from a variety of disciplines, and engage in the actual design of a database application as a course project. Topics include cross-cultural modes of classification, data models, big data, visualization, and building web-based databases. Course was offered Spring 2013 | |
| MDST 8000 | Graduate Seminar in Media Studies (3.00) |
| This is a core course that surveys key texts in Media Studies. THe course take a histroical approach to the development of the field, but also surveys the various developments in the social sciences, the humanities, and film studies relevant to the interdisciplinary study of media. Course was offered Fall 2012, Spring 2010 | |
| MDST 8559 | New Course in Media Studies (1.00 - 4.00) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Media Studies. Course was offered Fall 2011 | |
| MDST 8900 | Graduate Independent Study (3.00) |
| A single semester of independent study under faculty supervision for MA or PhD students doing intensive research on a subject not covered in available courses. Requires approval by a Media Studies faculty member who has agreed to supervise a guided course of reading and research. | |