Ideal for those who want to write about film, television or emerging media or prepare for graduate work, this option grounds students In media history, theory, and critical analysis. Rigorous and rewarding curriculum helps students to synthesize conceptual and historical knowledge, aesthetics, and critical discernment with analytical skills.
Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree:
CTVA - Media Theory and Criticism Option
- All lower and upper division courses taken toward completion of the CTVA major must be completed with a grade of C or better.
Lower division (9 units)
- CTVA 100 Introduction to Mass Communication Arts (3)
- CTVA 210 Television-Film Aesthetics (3)
- CTVA 220 Foundations of Media Writing (3)
Upper division (36 units)
- CTVA 309 Film as Literature (3)
- CTVA 319 Criticism in Cinema and Television Arts (3)
- CTVA 400 Media and Society (3)
Select one of the following courses: (3 units)
- CTVA 301 Design of the Media Message (3)
- CTVA 401 Mass Communications Research (3)
Select one of the following courses: (3 units)
- CTVA 305 History of Broadcasting (3)
- CTVA 310 History of American Cinema (3)
Select one of the following courses: (3 units)
- CTVA 315 New Directions in Electronic Media Systems (3)
- CTVA 405 International Broadcasting (3)
Select three of the following courses: (9 units)
- CTVA 410 Advanced Film Theory: Studies in Film Style (3)
- CTVA 412 Analysis of Classic Film Makers (3)
- CTVA 413 Women as Filmmakers (3)
- CTVA 415 International Cinema (3)
- CTVA 416 The Documentary Tradition in Film and Video (3)
Additional Units:
- Select 9 additional units in CTVA or an allied field, with the approval of an advisor, as prescribed in the official departmental advisement form for Media Theory and Criticism, or CTVA 494 C or CTVA 494F.
- General Education: CTVA 100 can be counted toward GE Lifelong Learning and the major.
Total Units in the Option - 45
General Education Units - 48
Additional Units - 27
Total Units Required for a B.A. Degree - 120