American Media and Popular Culture

Film & Media Studies will offer its new Master of Advanced Study degree in American Media and Popular Culture beginning in Fall 2009. The program will be entirely online (i.e., distance learning).

The program is likely to consist of the following courses:

 

Core Courses:

 

Elective Courses:


    • FMS 503 U.S. Media Now
    • FMS 505 American Directors and Genres
    • FMS 506 Race and Gender in American  Film
    • FMS 507 Crime and Violence in American Film
    • FMS 508 Film and Media Censorship
    • FMS 509 Race, Sex, and Identity Online

    • FMS 510 Story Analysis
    • FMS 511 Fundamentals of Cinema & Television Narrative
    • FMS 512 Intermediate Cinema & Television Narrative
    • FMS 513 Advanced Screenwriting
    • FMS 520 Television and Cultural Studies
    • FMS 521 Semiotics of Film and Popular Culture
    • FMS 522 LA Movies and Culture
    • FMS 595 Independent Study

    • FMS 598 Various Topics