Media Studies Majors must complete at least one elective from this list.
Not all courses are offered every year, or available to all majors.
Diversity and Inclusion Courses
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African-American and African Studies
AAS 3500 Aesthetics of Black Cinema
AAS 3500 Black Queer Film
AAS 3500 Making a Monster: Race and Monstrosity in the US Imagination
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American Studies
AMST 3354 Race & Media
AMST 3355 Border Media
AMST 3407 Racial Borders & American Cinema
AMST 3630 Vietnam War in Literature and Film
AMST 3740/MDST 3740 Cultures of Hip Hop
AMST 3790 Moving On: Migration in/to the United States
AMST 4472 Hollywood Cinema's Golden Age: The 1930s
AMST 4500 Participatory Documentary and Civil Rights Movement
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American Sign Language
ASL 3400 Deafness in Literature & Film
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Drama
DRAM 4592 Comedy as Protest
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Education
EDHS 3100 Media Socialization, Racial Stereotypes and Black Adolescent Identity
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English
ENGL 3922 Deafness in Literature & Film
ENGL 3924 Vietnam War in Literature and Film
ENGL 4560 Social Media/Gender/Global South
ENSP 4301 Global Indigenous Media
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Italian
ITTR 3685 Italy on Screen
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Media Studies
MDST 3105 Latina/o Media Studies
MDST 3111 Food Media and Popular Culture
MDST 3113 Black Americans in Horror Film
MDST 3205 New Latin American Cinema
MDST 3207 Experimental Ethnography and Film
MDST 3306 Sexuality, Gender, Class and Race in Teen Film
MDST 3355 Border Media
MDST 3338 New Cinema History - Nontheatrical Films
MDST 3388 Friday Night Lights
MDST 3406 The Wire: Understanding Urban America Through TV at its Best
MDST 3407 Racial Borders & American Cinema
MDST 3409 LGBTQ Issues in Media (cross-listed WGS 3409 course will also count)
MDST 3490 Just Kiddin': Comedy and Humor Across Media
MDST 3504 Cinema of Türkiye
MDST 3504 Immigrant Narratives in Italian Cinema
MDST 3504 Mexican Cinema
MDST 3504 Mexico Goes to Hollywood
MDST 3505 Special Topics in Diversity and Identity in Media (all topics)
MDST 3510 Communities and Cultures of Media Fandom
MDST 3510 Media Bodies
MDST 3510 Race and Digital Media Studies
MDST 3510 Race and Sound
MDST 3510 Stars, Celebrity, and Fame
MDST 3510 True Crime and Social Justice
MDST 3584 Mexican Cinema
MDST 3600 Women and Television
MDST 3662 Disability and Media
MDST 3665 Digital Media Accessibility
MDST 3670 Sports, Media, and Society
MDST 3740/AMST 3740 Cultures of Hip-Hop
MDST 3742 Athletes, Activism, and the Media
MDST 3760 Reading Black Digital Culture
MDST 3903 Media and Protest: The 1960s
MDST 3944 Avenger, Victim, Outsider: Women in 1990s Cinema
MDST 4107 Feminism and the Public Sphere
MDST 4108 Media, Drugs, and Violence in Latin America*
MDST 4110 Gender Non-Conformity in Media Culture (cross-listed course WGS 4110 will also count)
MDST 4200 Sex and Gender Go to the Movies (cross-listed courses WGS 4200 and SOC 4200 will also count)
MDST 4310 Celebrity Studies
MDST 4510 Celebrities of Color
MDST 4510/4109 Civil Rights Movement and the Media (students cannot receive credit for both mnemonics of this course)
MDST 4510 Fandom and Identity
MDST 4510 Media and Modern Life in India
MDST 4510 Seeking Justice Through Film
MDST 4510 Sex and Gender Go to the Movies
MDST 4670 Screening White Supremacy
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Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages & Cultures
ARTR 3490/5490 Arab Cinemas
MESA 3380 A Thousand and One Nights at the Cinema
SAST 3300 The Pleasures of Bollywood: Melodrama, Realism, Mythos
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Portuguese
POTR 4260 Brazilian Media
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Women, Gender, and Sexuality
WGS 3210 Gender, Sport and Film
WGS 4110 Gender Non-Conformity in Media
WGS 4200 Sex & Gender Go to the Movies
WGS 4500 Gender in South Asian Cinema