The Media School
Concentration in Cinema and Media Studies (Bachelor of Arts in Media)
Students on Summer 2020, Fall 2020, or Spring 2021 requirements MDAC10
Requirements
The major requires at least 36 credit hours (12 in the Media Core, 15 in the Concentration, and 9
in the Specialization), including the requirements listed below.
- Media School Core.
- Introduction to Media. One (1) course:
- MSCH-C 101 Media
MSCH-C 101 Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role media play in our lives-at work, at school, among family members, friends, and lovers-and analyzes pressing issues in media and society today, such as privacy, globalization, and convergence.
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- Managing Media. One (1) course:
- MSCH-C 200 The Videogame Industry: Systems and Management
- MSCH-C 203 Foundations of Journalism
- MSCH-C 204 Behind the Prize
- MSCH-C 206 Media Reporting in a Global World
- MSCH-C 207 Introduction to Media Industry and Management
- MSCH-C 208 Principles of Public Relations
- MSCH-C 209 Introduction to Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communication
MSCH-C 200 The Videogame Industry: Systems and Management
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines what games are and how they are made. Topics include the games industry: its creative dimensions and economic structures; its history and future; the organization of game development teams; the methods and tools used in game production. Students will gain a deeper and more detailed appreciation for this rapidly evolving, fascinating, and sometimes baffling industry.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of MSCH-C 200 or TEL-T 260.
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MSCH-C 203 Foundations of Journalism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A robust introduction to the field of journalism and the underlying principles of journalism. Explores the role of journalists and media in American society, the influences of news and entertainment media on audiences, and the role of journalism in modern media environments.
MSCH-C 204 Behind the Prize
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Pulitzer-winning reporters and other award-winning journalists visit the class to share behind-the-scene details of their projects, their ethical choices and the doubts and challenges they faced along the way. The class explores how journalistic prizes are selected and how they shape the future, not just of journalism, but of democracy.
MSCH-C 206 Media Reporting in a Global World
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The goal of the course is for students to understand and articulate the issues in global journalism and the role of the media as a participant in shaping societies.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of JOUR-J 206 or MSCH-C 206.
MSCH-C 207 Introduction to Media Industry and Management
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introductory analysis, using a case-study method, of how media industries such as broadcasting, cable, and telephone are structured, funded, and regulated; how media organizations create and market programs and products, and how they manage their operations.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of MSCH-C 207 or TEL-T 207.
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MSCH-C 208 Principles of Public Relations
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to public relations. Examines theory and practice of public relations, how public relations operates in organizations, and its impact on stakeholders and society. Topics include approaches to persuasion, media relations, crisis communication, reputation management, and ethics.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of JOUR-J 321, MSCH-C 208, or MSCH-R 321.
MSCH-C 209 Introduction to Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines principles of media advertising and applications across platforms and audiences. Analyzes the advertising industry structures and processes, including the roles of agencies, creative teams, station representatives, and buyers. Topics include the social and individual effects of advertising, ethical issues in advertising, and considerations for advertising in a global marketplace.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of MSCH, C 209, MSCH-A 300, MSCH-A 320, MSCH-A 337.
- Thinking Media. One (1) course:
- MSCH-C 211 Screening Gender and Sexuality
- MSCH-C 212 Screening Race and Ethnicity
- MSCH-C 241 Watching Film
- MSCH-C 247 Screen Cultures
MSCH-C 211 Screening Gender and Sexuality
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Critically examines how gender and sexuality are mediated through screen and audio-visual media (including film, video, television, radio, internet) and their cultural contexts. Using humanities approaches, topics might focus on popular media production; various genres, movements, and media cycles; specific cultural and historical contexts; impacts of technological change. Screenings may be required.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 203 or MSCH-C 211.
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MSCH-C 212 Screening Race and Ethnicity
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Critically examines how race and/or ethnicity are mediated through screen and audio-visual media (including film, video, television, radio, internet) and their cultural contexts. Using humanities approaches, topics might focus on representations and debates within mainstream, art, or alternative media. May address histories of race, racism, and racial justice. Screenings may be required.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 201 or MSCH-C 212.
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MSCH-C 241 Watching Film
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the power, pleasure, politics, and possibilities of cinema. Opportunity to develop film literacy through a better understanding of how film is and has been constructed and experienced. Provides critical techniques for analyzing and appreciating the many forms film has taken.
MSCH-C 247 Screen Cultures
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Draws on theories of screen-based spectatorship and the spatial, material, and performative aspects of screens to present a historically-grounded comparative analysis of the relationship between screen technologies and cultural screen practices. Focuses on public and urban screens, mobile screens, touch screens, and interactive screen-based installations.
- Making Media. One (1) course:
- MSCH-C 223 Introduction to Filmmaking
- MSCH-C 228 Multi-Camera TV Studio Production I
- MSCH-C 229 Introduction to Single-Camera Production
MSCH-C 223 Introduction to Filmmaking
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Provides a conceptual framework for writing, designing, and evaluating a variety of media products. Media program design is not a hands-on production course but does offer an overview of the production process. Topics include scriptwriting, production design, visualization, composition, editing styles, and others.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of MSCH-C 223 or TEL-T 206.
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MSCH-C 228 Multi-Camera TV Studio Production I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A hands-on course focusing on multi-camera television studio production. Introduces technical aspects of the video signal and builds skills in the proficient operation of the cameras, audio board, lighting console, video switcher, character generator, and other studio equipment. Labs focus on developing these and other skills and producing multi-camera TV productions.
MSCH-C 229 Introduction to Single-Camera Production
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Outlines the basic procedures, techniques, and theories for the production of a video. Main focal points and concentrations include cinematography, lighting, and editing of digital video using single-cam and dual system audio/video recording techniques. Uses DSLR and cinema camera technology and incorporates an HD workflow.
- Introduction to Media. One (1) course:
- Concentration.
- Cinema and Media Studies. Two (2) courses:
- MSCH-D 301 Media Technologies and Culture II
- MSCH-D 302 Games, Culture, and Society
- MSCH-D 337 Digital Media
- MSCH-D 413 Global Screen Cultures
- MSCH-F 306 Writing Media Criticism
- MSCH-F 311 History of Media and Culture
- MSCH-F 326 Authorship in the Media
- MSCH-F 375 Race, Gender, and Representation
- MSCH-F 377 Cinemas of the Black Diaspora
- MSCH-F 380 Hollywood I: The First Fifty Years, 1895-1945
- MSCH-F 381 Hollywood II: 1945 to the Present
- MSCH-F 382 American Independent Cinema
- MSCH-F 383 Sound and Cinema
- MSCH-F 391 Media Audiences
- MSCH-F 392 Media Genres
- MSCH-F 398 National and Transnational Cinemas
- MSCH-F 415 Contemporary Filmmakers
- MSCH-F 420 Topics in Media History
- MSCH-F 445 Media, Culture, and Politics
- MSCH-H 451 Media Scholar Capstone
- MSCH-J 450 History of Journalism
- MSCH-M 411 Media Industries and Cultural Production
- Three (3) credit hours from the following:
- MSCH-X 370 Community and Media
- MSCH-X 472 Media Internship
MSCH-D 301 Media Technologies and Culture II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- A grade of C- or higher in MSCH-C 215, MSCH-C 247, or MSCH-C 249
- Description
- Critically examines media technologies and their design, production, consumption and regulation. Explores historical and contemporary media technologies to make sense of their impact on politics, power, and meaning.
MSCH-D 302 Games, Culture, and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- A grade of C- or higher in MSCH-C 215, MSCH-C 247, or MSCH-C 249; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Interrogates digital and analog game play as a rich cultural practice and as a means of identity formation, performance, and representation as well as the role game design plays in structuring social and political relations.
MSCH-D 337 Digital Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Develops frameworks for understanding new media technologies in social contexts. Compares computing, networked digital media, and social media to prior eras of technological change, focusing on interactions among technological, industrial, regulatory, social, and cultural forces.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
MSCH-D 413 Global Screen Cultures
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Covers electronic media\'s role in altering perceptions of time, space, locality, and identity. Explores changing economic, political, and cultural relations in the global media environment. Topics vary and may include global media events, trans-border information flows, cultural differences in media forms and practices.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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MSCH-F 306 Writing Media Criticism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of the main schools and methods of media criticism; emphasis on developing the analytical and critical skills necessary for writing film, television, and/or other types of media criticism.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 306 or MSCH-F 306.
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MSCH-F 311 History of Media and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Historical development of media forms, institutions, and technology, from the origins of writing to digital media. Attention to characteristics of media, changes in media's role as a cultural force, transformations to media institutions, and the role of media in the development of public discourse. Considers continuity and change over time.
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MSCH-F 326 Authorship in the Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Topic varies: in-depth analysis of directors, producers, or creative individuals in the media, viewed as 'authors.'
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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MSCH-F 375 Race, Gender, and Representation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Construction of race and gender identities across a range of media. Emphasis on the power of sound/image representations to shape and contest ideas about race and gender. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 412, JOUR-J 375, or MSCH-F 375.
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MSCH-F 377 Cinemas of the Black Diaspora
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines filmmaking in the black diaspora as a formally innovative visual and narrative art form in world cinema. Studies select films for their political and cultural significance and shared themes. Topics include colonialism and postcoloniality; race, gender and sexuality; migration and exile; modernity; and the dislocating processes of globalization.
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MSCH-F 380 Hollywood I: The First Fifty Years, 1895-1945
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Presents a survey of the first fifty years of American cinema, from the premiere of moving pictures through the introduction of feature films, the star system, and movie theaters. Includes the rise of Hollywood as industry, mythmaker, and purveyor of stories about glamour, gender, race, social class, romance, fear and pleasure.
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MSCH-F 381 Hollywood II: 1945 to the Present
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Presents a critical survey of Hollywood cinema, from 1945 to the present, from the dual perspective of film history and cultural history. Focuses on stardom and performance, popular representations of race, class, gender and sexuality, technological change, genre theory, marketing and promotion, and the globalization of Hollywood.
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MSCH-F 382 American Independent Cinema
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the history, context, and development of American independent cinema from the 1960s to the present day. Introduces key films and directors from the period, aesthetic characteristics and influences, as well as social and institutional contexts that led to the creation of this form of filmmaking and cinema.
MSCH-F 383 Sound and Cinema
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the role of sound in cinematic production and exhibition from the early days of live musical accompaniment of silent films through to recent innovations in sound design. Covers the skills needed to analyze, discuss, and write about how sound gives meaning and feeling to the cinematic image.
MSCH-F 391 Media Audiences
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Studies audiences in the context of film, television, new media, and other media forms. Topic varies, but may include a focus on theories of spectatorship, historical reception studies, ethnographic and/or empirical audience studies, global or transnational audiences, Internet communities, performance theory, fan cultures, and subcultures.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 391 and MSCH-F 391.
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MSCH-F 392 Media Genres
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Topic varies. Analysis of typical genres, such as westerns, situation comedies, documentaries, etc. Problems of generic description or definition: themes, conventions, iconography peculiar to given genres.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 392 and MSCH-F 392.
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MSCH-F 398 National and Transnational Cinemas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Historical survey of major national cinemas. Subject varies. Topics include Brazilian cinema, British cinema, Chinese cinema, French National cinema, German film culture, Indian cinema, and Italian cinema.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 398 and MSCH-F 398.
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MSCH-F 415 Contemporary Filmmakers
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines contemporary film authorship in collaboration with the IU Cinema. Students attend lectures by visiting filmmakers and attend screenings of their films and discuss film criticism and review.
MSCH-F 420 Topics in Media History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Media historiography, topics in national media history, national and international movements and trends. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 420 and MSCH-F 420.
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MSCH-F 445 Media, Culture, and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role of media in the political process. Topic varies and may include censorship and free speech, social movements, politics of representation.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 445 or MSCH-F 445.
MSCH-H 451 Media Scholar Capstone
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Senior standing; and must be an Ernie Pyle Scholar or Media Scholar
- Description
- Topical seminar in which students complete an honors capstone project focused on a topic they selected in consultation with their faculty mentor.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours in MSCH-H 451 and TEL-S 451.
MSCH-J 450 History of Journalism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
- Description
- American social-intellectual history integrated with the story of news media development, emphasizing the historical relationship of the mass media to American social, economic, and cultural patterns and developments. Origin, growth, shortcomings, and achievements of media. Impact of society on the media and vice versa.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of JOUR-J 450 or MSCH-J 450.
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MSCH-M 411 Media Industries and Cultural Production
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the social, economic, and cultural forces that influence the creation of programs and genres in the media industries. Topic varies, but may explore the role of networks, advertisers, studios, and independent producers.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 411 or MSCH-M 411.
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MSCH-X 370 Community and Media
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A service-learning seminar that offers students hands-on experience working with community-based media production. Topics range from film festival programming to community broadcasting. Students learn to develop concept, communication and operational strategies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 385, MSCH-P 384, and MSCH-X 370.
MSCH-X 472 Media Internship
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing; at least 12 credit hours completed in the school; and application for internship credit approved by the school
- Notes
- Application is available on the Media School website
- Description
- Faculty-supervised work in a media field related to student's academic interests. Credits based on at least 45 work hours per credit hour with a maximum of 6 credit hours applied toward the B.A. in Media or the B.S. in Game Design. Student must write a critical analysis paper and be evaluated by a workplace supervisor.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 382, MSCH-I 382, MSCH-I 497, MSCH-X 472, or TEL-T 497.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
- Film, Television & Digital Production. Two (2) courses:
- MSCH-P 331 Introduction to Screenwriting
- MSCH-P 335 Production as Criticism
- MSCH-P 360 Motion Picture Production
- MSCH-P 361 Intermediate Motion Picture Production
- MSCH-P 438 Experiments with the Film Camera
MSCH-P 331 Introduction to Screenwriting
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- C- or higher in MSCH-C 223 or MSCH-C 250
- Description
- Introductory course covering formal elements of Hollywood-style narrative screenwriting, focusing on screenplay format, stages of story development, story structure, character arcs, plotting, conflict, theme, point-of-view, dialogue, subtext, and scene description. Analyzes distinctions between literary writing and screenwriting.
MSCH-P 335 Production as Criticism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- A grade of C- or higher in MSCH-C 223 and MSCH-C 229; or consent of instructor
- Description
- By modeling the techniques of historically significant films, provides both conceptual and hands-on experience for researching, writing, and producing different genres of cinematic media. Emphasizes conceptual processes from script to the completed film.
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MSCH-P 360 Motion Picture Production
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- A grade of C- or higher in MSCH-C 229
- Description
- A hands-on introduction to the technical and aesthetic basics of making 16mm silent films, including the skills needed to design, direct, light, shoot, and edit this type of production
MSCH-P 361 Intermediate Motion Picture Production
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- A grade of C- of higher in MSCH-C 229; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Focuses on the ecology of the department-based work environment of a professional motion picture set. Provides practice in the various film crew roles, including producer, director, cinematographer, gaffer, script supervisor, production designer, assistant director, sound recordist, boom operator, data wrangler/editor, grip, and unit production manager.
MSCH-P 438 Experiments with the Film Camera
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- MSCH-P 360; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores techniques and concepts of experimental filmmaking, building on the foundation of other production classes. Activities employ skills in basic cinematography and visual storytelling, as well as in the fundamentals of digital editing.
- Elective. One (1) course:
- Additional course from the Cinema and Media Studies lists
- Additional course from the Film, Television, and Digital Production lists
- Additional Requirements.
- At least nine (9) credit hours in the concentration must be at the 300–499 level.
- Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the concentration.
- A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the concentration—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Cinema and Media Studies. Two (2) courses:
- Specialization. One (1) Media Specialization from the list below.
- Major GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Major GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the major—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Major Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the major.
- Major Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Major Residency. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- College Breadth. At least 58 credit hours must be completed in courses from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines outside of the major area.
Major Area Courses
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Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
MSCH
prefix—as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent - Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
- Any course, consistent with the policies herein, that is part of a concentration, track, and/or specialization being pursued as part of this academic program
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
Exclusions
The following courses cannot be applied toward major requirements or the College Breadth requirement:
This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (JOURBAJ)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinematic Arts (CINEARTBFA)
- Bachelor of Science in Game Design (GAMEDSGNBS)
- Certificate in New Media and Interactive Storytelling (NMISTACRT1)
- Minor in Black Cinema and Media Studies (BLKCNMDMIN)
- Minor in Cinema and Media Studies (CNMDASTMIN)
- Minor in Film Production (FILMPRDMIN)
- Minor in Game Design (GAMEDSNMIN)
- Minor in Global Media (GLVMDIAMIN)
- Minor in Media and Creative Advertising (MDCRADMIN)
- Minor in Media and Diversity (MDIADIVMIN)
- Minor in Media Law and Ethics (MDLWETMIN)
- Minor in Media Persuasion (MDIAPRSMIN)
- Minor in Media, Sex and Gender (MDGNDRMIN)
- [Name unavailable] (NMISTACRT)
- [Name unavailable] (PBLCRELMIN)
- [Name unavailable] (FAMEDIAMIN)
- [Name unavailable] (SPORTMDMIN)
Exceptions to and substitutions for major requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Bachelor of Arts degree requires at least 120 credit hours, to include the following:
- College of Arts and Sciences Credit Hours. At least 100 credit hours must come from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines.
- Upper Division Courses. At least 42 credit hours (of the 120) must be at the 300–499 level.
- College Residency. Following completion of the 60th credit hour toward degree, at least 36 credit hours of College of Arts and Sciences coursework must be completed through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- College GPA. A College grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.000 is required.
- CASE Requirements. The following College of Arts and Sciences Education (CASE) requirements must be completed:
- CASE Foundations
- CASE Breadth of Inquiry
- CASE Culture Studies
- CASE Critical Approaches: 1 course
- CASE Foreign Language: Proficiency in a single foreign language through the second semester of the second year of college-level coursework
- CASE Intensive Writing: 1 course
- CASE Public Oral Communication: 1 course
- Major. Completion of the major as outlined in the Major Requirements section above.
Most students must also successfully complete the Indiana University Bloomington General Education program.
Subject areas
- Any AAAD course that carries degree credit
- Any AAST course that carries degree credit
- Any ABEH course that carries degree credit
- Any AFRI course that carries degree credit
- Any AMST course that carries degree credit
- Any ANTH course that carries degree credit
- Any ARTH course that carries degree credit
- Any ASCS course that carries degree credit
- Any AST course that carries degree credit
- Any BIOC course that carries degree credit
- Any BIOL course that carries degree credit
- Any BIOT course that carries degree credit
- Any CEUS course that carries degree credit
- Any CHEM course that carries degree credit
- Any CJUS course that carries degree credit
- Any CLAS course that carries degree credit
- Any CLLC course that carries degree credit
- Any CMLT course that carries degree credit
- Any COGS course that carries degree credit
- Any COLL course that carries degree credit
- Any EALC course that carries degree credit
- Any EAS course that carries degree credit
- Any ECON course that carries degree credit
- Any ENG course that carries degree credit
- Any EURO course that carries degree credit
- Any FOLK course that carries degree credit
- Any FRIT course that carries degree credit
- Any GEOG course that carries degree credit
- Any GER course that carries degree credit
- Any GLLC course that carries degree credit
- Any GNDR course that carries degree credit
- Any HHC course that carries degree credit
- Any HISP course that carries degree credit
- Any HIST course that carries degree credit
- Any HON course that carries degree credit
- Any HPSC course that carries degree credit
- Any HUBI course that carries degree credit
- Any IMP course that carries degree credit
- Any INST course that carries degree credit
- Any INTL course that carries degree credit
- Any JSTU course that carries degree credit
- Any LAMP course that carries degree credit
- Any LATS course that carries degree credit
- Any LING course that carries degree credit
- Any LTAM course that carries degree credit
- Any MATH course that carries degree credit
- Any MELC course that carries degree credit
- Any MEST course that carries degree credit
- Any MLS course that carries degree credit
- Any MSCH course that carries degree credit
- Any NEUS course that carries degree credit
- Any OVST course that carries degree credit
- Any PACE course that carries degree credit
- Any PHIL course that carries degree credit
- Any PHYS course that carries degree credit
- Any POLS course that carries degree credit
- Any PSY course that carries degree credit
- Any REEI course that carries degree credit
- Any REL course that carries degree credit
- Any RMI course that carries degree credit
- Any SEAS course that carries degree credit
- Any SGIS course that carries degree credit
- Any SLAV course that carries degree credit
- Any SLHS course that carries degree credit
- Any SLST course that carries degree credit
- Any SOAD course that carries degree credit
- Any SOC course that carries degree credit
- Any STAT course that carries degree credit
- Any THTR course that carries degree credit
Specializations
- Specialization in Advertising Creative
- Specialization in Advertising Management
- Specialization in Art, Aesthetics and Experimental Media
- Specialization in Audio Journalism
- Specialization in Black Cinema Studies: Aesthetics, History, and Image
- Specialization in Broadcast Journalism
- Specialization in Creative Industry Management
- Specialization in Digital Journalism
- Specialization in Documentary
- Specialization in Editing and Post Production
- Specialization in Game Art
- Specialization in Game Audio
- Specialization in Game Production
- Specialization in Global Media
- Specialization in Graphic Communication
- Specialization in Health Communication
- Specialization in International Cinema
- Specialization in Media & Creative Advertising Strategies
- Specialization in Media and Cultural Studies
- Specialization in Media and Diversity
- Specialization in Media History New and Old
- Specialization in Media Law and Ethics
- Specialization in Media Persuasion and Behavior
- Specialization in Media Psychology
- Specialization in Media Research
- Specialization in Multi-Camera Video Production
- Specialization in Narrative Filmmaking
- Specialization in New Media Marketing
- Specialization in News Writing
- Specialization in Photojournalism
- Specialization in Politics and Media
- Specialization in PR and Strategic Communication
- Specialization in Screenwriting
- Specialization in Sex, Gender and Media
- Specialization in Sports Journalism
- Specialization in Video Journalism
- Specialization in Web