Media Studies majors have the option of concentrating their upper-division study in the area of Media Policy and Ethics. Students are not required to have a concentration, but if they do, students can have only one. Concentrations do not involve additional requirements on top of the standard major requirements. Instead, each concentration requires that at least three (3) of the six (6) electives be focused on specialized courses from approved lists. For students who expect to graduate in May, the deadline for declaring a concentration is January 31 in the student’s final semester. If the student’s final semester is in the fall, and a January graduation is expected, the deadline for declaring a concentration the first Friday of the fall semester. To declare, students must complete a Declaration Form with their advisors and submit them to the Media Studies Main Office in Wilson 217
Media Policy and Ethics
This concentration requires the completion of three (3) courses focused on issues in media policy or media ethics. All courses must be at the 3000-level or above. Students may use courses from the pre-approved list here or may appeal the use of a course not listed. Any other courses, including cross-listed courses, which a student might wish to have count toward the concentration, must be approved by the Director of Undergraduate Programs for the Media Studies Department.
AMST 4410 Censorship
MDST 3102 Copyright, Commerce & Culture
MDST 3104 News & the Construction of Reality
MDST 3106 History of U.S. Broadcasting
MDST 3120 Global Media & Cybersecurity
MDST 3140 Mass Media and American Politics
MDST 3300 Global Media
MDST 3402 War and the Media
MDST 3404 Democratic Politics in the New Media Environment
MDST 3405 Media Policy and Law
MDST 3410 Media Ethics
MDST 3503 Special Topics: Issues & Controversies in the Media
MDST 3504 International Communication
MDST 3559 @War: Internet and Global Politics (fall 2018)
MDST 3559 News Ethics
MDST 3706 Media in China: Technology, Policy, and Commerce
MDST 4101 Privacy and Surveillance
MDST 4105 Media and Citizenship
MDST 4411 Free Speech and the Media
MDST 4559 Internet Policy & Regulation (spring 2019, and spring 2018)
MDST 4559 Cyber War (spring 2018)
MDST 4559 Media Access (fall 2018)
MDST 4704 Political Economy of Communication
PLAP 3140 Mass Media and American Politics
Film Concentration
Media Studies majors have the option of concentrating their upper-division study in the area of film by selecting one (1) Film Studies Core course; one (1) Practice of Film course and three (3) 3000-level or higher Film electives from the following list of pre-approved film studies courses. Any other film courses which a student might wish to have count toward the concentration must be approved by the Director of Undergraduate Programs of Media Studies. Note: The course used for the Practice of Film requirement must be the same course used for the Practice of Media requirement for the major. No more than one Practice of Media/Film course may be used towards the major.
Film Studies Core Course Requirement
Students must complete one of the following approved core courses:
DRAM 2810 Cinema as an Art Form
DRAM 3830 History of Film I
DRAM 3840 History of Film II
DRAM 3850 History of Film III
MDST 2200 Introduction to Film
MDST 2810 Cinema as an Art Form
MDST 3830 History of Film I
MDST 3840 History of Film II
MDST 3850 History of Film III
Practice of Film Requirement
Students must complete one Practice of Film requirement. This course will be used to simultaneously fulfill the Practice of Media requirement for the major. Only one of these courses may count towards the major and film concentration requirements.
ARCH 3450 Digital Moviemaking and Animation
ARCH 5420 Digital Animation and Storytelling
ARCH 5450 Digital Moviemaking and Animation
ARTS 2370 Introduction to Cinematography I
ARTS 2372 Introduction to Cinematography II
ARTS 3370 Intermediate Cinematography I
ARTS 3372 Intermediate Cinematography II
ARTS 4372 Advanced Cinematography II
DANC 3540 Dance for the Camera
DRAM 3651 Directing I
DRAM 3710 Playwriting I
DRAM 3720 Playwriting II
DRAM 4596 Special Topics in Directing
DRAM 4599 Special Topics in Playwriting
DRAM 4710 Playwriting III
DRAM 4730 Advanced Playwriting
MDST 3804 Scriptwriting for Film and Television
MDST 4801 Introduction to Documentary Production
MDST 4802 Intermediate Documentary Production
STS 2500 Building A Story: Fundamental Documentary Film
Approved Courses towards the Film Concentration Electives
Students must dedicate three (3) of their MDST electives at the 3000-level or above to courses in which film is the main object of study. These may be chosen flexibly from offerings in Media Studies and the other UVa Departments that offer film courses. The following courses are pre-approved for this requirement. Additional courses can be approved by the DUP.
AMST 2500 Racial Borders and American Cinema
AMST 4472 Hollywood Cinema's Golden Age
AMST 4410 Censorship
AMST 4500 Stardom and American Cinema
AMST 4500 The Vietnam War: A Film
ANTH 3559 Racial Borders and American Cinema
ANTH 3620 Cinema in India
ASL 4810 Deafness in Literature and Film
DRAM 3830 History of Film I
DRAM 3840 History of Film II
DRAM 3850 History of Film III
DRAM 3870 Contemporary Independent Film & Video
ENAM 4500 Advanced Studies in American Literature – American Film
ENMC 3559 Vietnam War in Literature and Film (fall 2015)
ENNC 4500 Austen in Print and Film
ENSP 3850 The Dark Side of Hollywood: Film Noir
ENSP 5810 Film Aesthetics
ENSP 5830 Literature and Film
FREN 3584 Topics in French Cinema
FREN 4743 Africa in Cinema
FREN 5584 Contemporary French Cinema
FRTR 3584 Masterpieces of French Cinema
GERM 5620 Studies in Drama
GETR 3500 Dark Passages: Film Noir and Exile
GETR 3566 Weimer Cinema
GETR 3562 New German Cinema
GETR 3590 Staging Revolution: Aesthetics & Politics of 20c Film and Theater
HIEU 3604 Holocaust on Film
HIUS 3161 Viewing American, 1940-1980
HIUS 3173 The Vietnam War in American Film
HIUS 3559 Vietnam War in Literature and Film
ISHU 3300 Socrates at the Cinema
ITTR 3559 Italy on Screen: Sex, Gender and Racial Identities in the Glocal Context
ITTR 3670 Contemporary Italian Cinema: From Canon to the Fringe
JPTR 3320 Cinematic Images of Japanese Culture and Society
JTTR 3559 Tokyo, Its Cinematic Landscape
ITTR 3710 From Fiction to Film
ITTR 3775 Acting Italian: Benigni, Goldoni, Fo
KRTR 3390 Gender in Modern Korean Film and Literature
MDST 3100 Film and Television in the 1960’s
MDST 3110 Hollywood Goes to Asia
MDST 3205 New Latin American Cinema
MDST 3206 Documentary Film
MDST 3306 Sexuality, Gender, Class and Race in Teen Film
MDST 3310 Sound and Cinema
MDST 3402 War and the Media
MDST 3407 Racial Borders and American Cinema
MDST 3501 Topics in Directors and Auteurs
MDST 3502 Topics in Film Genre
MDST 3559 Celebrity Studies (fall 2016)
MDST 3559 White Out: Screening White Supremacy (spring 2018)
MDST 3584 Dark Passages: Film Noir and Exile
MDST 3584 Screening Nature: The Environment on Film
MDST 2584 Masterpieces of French Cinema
MDST 3584 Weimer Cinema
MDST 3601 Screening History: Media and Cultural Memory
MDST 3620 World Cinema
MDST 3630 Screening Terrorism
MDST 3640 American Gangster Films
MDST 3650 Shooting the Western
MDST 3830 History of Film I
MDST 3840 History of Film II
MDST 3850 History of Film III
MDST 4200 Sex & Gender Go to the Movies
MDST 4559 Brazilian Media (fall 2018, and fall 2017)
MDST 4660 Watching the Detectives
MESA 3111 Film Festivals & Global Media Cultures
PAVS 4500 The Vietnam War: A Film
PERS 3559 Modernity and Iran's Post-Revolutionary Cinema
POTR 4260 Brazilian Media
POTR 4559 Contemporary Brazilian Cinema (spring 2018)
WGS 3210 Gender, Sport, and Film
WGS 3559 Italy on Screen: Sex, Gender and Racial Identities in the Glocal Context (fall 2018)
WGS 4559 Gender in South Asian Cinema (spring 2015)