Students may apply two (2) electives from outside the Media Studies Department (in addition to Practice of Media) to fulfill major requirements. This includes study abroad, classes taken in other departments at UVA, and transfer credits from other US institutions.
If you see a course with a media focus in another department you would like take, you can have it evaluated by submitting this form to our Director of Undergraduate Programs (DUP).
Courses offered by other departments which have been approved for acceptance in the past include those listed below. Note that one-time and outside courses are not always automatically reflected in SIS. If you find one of these classes is not counting toward the major, contact Julie Gronlund at jlg2r@virginia.edu.
Courses offered by other departments
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African American Studies
AAS 3500 - Aesthetics of Black Cinema (D&I)
AAS 3500 - Making a Monster: Race and Monstrosity in the US Imagination (D&I)
AAS 4109 - Civil Rights Movement and the Media
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American Studies
AMST 3471 - American Cinema
AMST 3740- Cultures of Hip Hop (this is also offered as MDST 3740)
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American Sign Language
ASL 4810 - Deafness in Literature and Film (cannot receive credit for both ASL 4810 and ENG 3922) (D&I) (Film Concentration Elective)
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Architecture
ARCH 3500 - Special Topics in Architecture: 6D
ARCH 5500 - Intersections: Architecture and Cinema (Film Concentration Elective)
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Art
ARTR 3490 - Arab Cinemas (D&I) (Film Concentration Elective)
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Commerce
COMM 4535 - The Business of Media (Practice of Media)
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Drama
DRAM 3820 - Video Design (Practice of Media)
DRAM 3825 - Media Design Studio (Practice of Media)
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English
ENG 3922 - Deafness in Literature and Film (cannot receive credit for both ENG 3922 and ASL 4810) (D&I) (Film Concentration Elective)
ENGL 4560 - Visual Fictions: Photography & 20/21c US Literature
ENGR 4595 - The Art of Storytelling: Producing Science and Engineering Documentaries
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German
GETR 3393 - Serial Media
GETR 3471 - Weimar Cinema (Film Concentration Elective)
GETR 3562 - German New Wave Cinema: Reinvention, Remembrance, Rebellion (Film Concentration Elective)
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History
HIUS 3162 - Digitizing America
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Italian
ITTR 3280 - Michaelangelo: The Artist, The Man, and his Times
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Leadership and Public Policy
LPPP 3559 - Big Tech, Society, and Public Policy (spring 2024) (Policy & Ethics Concentration elective)
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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages and Cultures
MESA 3111 - Film Festivals & Global Media Cultures (Film)
MESA 3380 - A Thousand and One Nights at the Cinema (D&I) (Film Concentration Elective)
MESA 3381 - Spies in Action: Cine-Media Worlds of Espionage
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American Studies
PETR 3125 - #MahsaAmini: Revolution and Media
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Politics
PLAP 3140 - Mass Media and American Politics (Policy & Ethics Concentration)
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Sociology
SOC 3505 - Gender, Power, Film (D&I, Film Concentration Elective) (this course is taught by a member of the MDST faculty and is therefore considered an elective WITHIN the Media Studies Department)
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American Studies
STS 2500 - Telling the Story of Science and Engineering: Making Documentary Video (Practice of Media)
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Women and Gender Studies
WGS 3415 - Sex and Resistance on the Internet (D&I)