2013â2014 The Bulletin - USS at Tufts - Tufts University
2013â2014 The Bulletin - USS at Tufts - Tufts University
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Communic<strong>at</strong>ions and Media Studies ><br />
Professor Charles Inouye, German, Russian, and Asian<br />
Languages and Liter<strong>at</strong>ures<br />
Professor Vida Johnson, German, Russian, and Asian<br />
Languages and Liter<strong>at</strong>ures<br />
Professor Joseph Litvak, English<br />
Professor Susan Napier, German, Russian, and Asian<br />
Languages and Liter<strong>at</strong>ures<br />
Professor Colin Orians, Biology, Environmental Studies<br />
Program<br />
Professor Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Anthropology<br />
Professor Karen Panetta, Electrical and Computer<br />
Engineering<br />
Professor Christiane Zehl Romero, German, Russian,<br />
and Asian Languages and Liter<strong>at</strong>ures<br />
Professor Laurence Senelick, Drama and Dance<br />
Professor Xueping Zhong, German, Russian, and Asian<br />
Languages and Liter<strong>at</strong>ures<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor Nancy Bauer, Dean of Academic<br />
Affairs for Arts and Sciences, Philosophy<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor Marina Bers, Child Development<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor Downing Cless, Drama and Dance<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor Alva Couch, Computer Science<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor James Ennis, Sociology<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor Calvin Gidney III, Child Development<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor Brigitte Lane, Romance Languages<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor David Locke, Music<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor Joel Rosenberg, German, Russian,<br />
and Asian Languages and Liter<strong>at</strong>ures<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor Sarah Sobieraj, Sociology<br />
Assistant Professor Amahl Bishara, Anthropology<br />
Assistant Professor Monica White Ndounou, Drama<br />
and Dance<br />
Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Lemons, Religion<br />
Lecturer Susan Kouguell, Drama and Dance<br />
Lecturer Paul Lehrman, Music<br />
Lecturer Nan Levinson, English<br />
Lecturer Neil Miller, English<br />
Communic<strong>at</strong>ions and Media Studies is an interdisciplinary<br />
program th<strong>at</strong> educ<strong>at</strong>es students about<br />
mass media and communic<strong>at</strong>ions. In our contemporary<br />
world, the omnipresence of mass communic<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
demands a basic understanding of its<br />
workings and effects by every citizen. <strong>The</strong> mission<br />
of the Communic<strong>at</strong>ions and Media Studies<br />
program is to provide students with the necessary<br />
critical tools to particip<strong>at</strong>e actively and knowledgeably<br />
as informed world citizens and to give them a<br />
background in media literacy to make them more<br />
careful and critical consumers and producers of<br />
media. <strong>The</strong> program is designed to aid all students<br />
in acquiring this knowledge, while also providing<br />
interested students with the opportunity to make<br />
communic<strong>at</strong>ions and media studies a major part of<br />
their academic career <strong>at</strong> <strong>Tufts</strong>.<br />
Each semester the program offers courses of its<br />
own through the Experimental College and lists all<br />
media-rel<strong>at</strong>ed courses available in the College of<br />
Liberal Arts. <strong>The</strong> program also offers three<br />
interdisciplinary minors: Mass Communic<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
and Media Studies, Film Studies (with two<br />
tracks—Film Criticism and Film Practice), and<br />
Multimedia Arts. It also registers, supervises, and<br />
grants credit for internships in all fields of communic<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
and mass media. Special events and<br />
lectures are organized annually and are open to the<br />
entire university community.<br />
For more inform<strong>at</strong>ion, contact the program office <strong>at</strong><br />
95 Talbot Avenue, 617-627-2155, cms@tufts.edu.<br />
INTERDISCIPLINARY MINOR IN MASS<br />
COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA STUDIES<br />
Students pursuing the interdisciplinary minor in<br />
Mass Communic<strong>at</strong>ions and Media Studies must<br />
take Media and Society (Sociology 40) or Media<br />
Literacy (Experimental College 50C) and four<br />
courses from the program’s approved elective<br />
courses list. In addition, during their senior year<br />
CMS students must either complete a senior<br />
project (Experimental College 194C) or take an<br />
additional media course from the CMS list (the<br />
CMS course option).<br />
<strong>The</strong> four elective courses mentioned above must<br />
be from <strong>at</strong> least three departments, and they must<br />
include <strong>at</strong> least one course in the disciplinary area<br />
of social sciences and <strong>at</strong> least one course in the<br />
disciplinary area of humanities and the arts. Except<br />
with the written consent of the director, only one<br />
of the four electives may be a media practice course<br />
or credited internship where students learn skills in<br />
media production (e.g., photography, journalism,<br />
video, film, multimedia, graphic design, advertising<br />
copy). With the exception of the internship<br />
(Experimental College 99C) and the senior<br />
colloquium (Experimental College 190C), all<br />
courses taken for the MCMS minor must be taken<br />
for a letter grade.<br />
In accordance with <strong>Tufts</strong> policies, students<br />
cannot double count a course for fulfillment of a<br />
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