Recommended Academic Plan for Media Studies, Film and Television Studies Option (MEDIA/flmtv at University Park)
Effective Fall 2006

Semester 1

Credits

Semester 2

Credits

Foreign Language

4

Foreign Language

4

Natural Sciences (GN)

3

CAS 100 (GWS) Effective Speech

3

Humanities (GH)

3

Arts (GA)

3

Social and Behavioral Sciences (GS)

3

Humanities (GH)

3

ENGL 015 or 030 (GWS) Rhetoric & Comp or Honors Comp

3

Natural Sciences (GN)

3

First-Year Seminar

1

 

 

Total Credits:

17

Total Credits:

16

Semester 3

Credits

Semester 4

Credits

COMM 150 Cinema Art

3

COMM 242 Basic F/V Production

3

Foreign Language

4

COMM 100 Mass Media & Society

3

ECON 002 (GS) Microeconomic Anly

3

Other Cultures

3

Quantification (GQ)

3

Bachelor of Arts Knowledge Domain

3

Natural Sciences (GN)

3

STAT 200 (GQ) Elementary Statistics

4

 

 

 

 

Total Credits:

16

Total Credits:

16

Semester 5

Credits

Semester 6

Credits

COMM 405 Political Econ of Comm

3

COMM 304 Mass Comm Research

3

COMM 413W Mass Media & the Public

3

COMM 411 Cultural Aspects of Mass Media

3

COMM 250 Film History & Theory

3

ENGL 202 (GWS) Effective Writing

3

Elective

3

Arts (GA)

3

Bachelor of Arts Knowledge Domain (US or IL)

3

Health and Physical Activity (GHA)

1.5

Total Credits:

15

Total Credits:

13.5

Semester 7

Credits

Semester 8

Credits

COMM Film History, Criticism and Theory (see advisor or degree audit)

6

COMM Film History, Criticism and Theory (see advisor or degree audit)

3

Bachelor of Arts Knowledge Domain (US or IL)

3

Option Credits (see advisor)

3

Health and Physical Activity (GHA)

1.5

Electives

7

Elective

3

 

 

Total Credits:

13.5

Total Credits:

13
  • Bold type indicates courses requiring a quality grade of C or better.
  • Italics indicates courses that satisfy both major and General Education requirements.
  • Bold Italics indicates courses requiring a quality grade of C or better and that satisfy both major and General Education requirements.
  • GWS, GHA, GQ, GN, GA, GH, and GS are codes used to identify General Education requirements.
  • US, IL, and US;IL are codes used to designate courses that satisfy University United States/International Cultures requirements.
  • W is the code used to designate courses that satisfy University Writing Across the Curriculum requirements.

Scheduling patterns for courses not taught each semester:

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