Wherein Karen rants about the MS program and posts her hypothetical schedule
Class schedules are out and I'm sure everyone on campus is rabid as a result. I've been taking this opportunity to look over the new Media Studies major requirements and work on my plan for graduation.
One of the requirements is that we have to take a media history course. I am annoyed because pretty much all the "media history" courses are actually *film* history courses:
LIT 131 CM, Film History I (1925-1965)
LIT 132 CM, Film History II (1965-Present)
LIT 134 CM, Special Studies in Film
LIT 136 CM, American Film Genres
MS 45 PZ, Documentary Media
MS 47 PZ, Independent Film Cultures
MS 79 PZ, Silent Film
MS 86 PZ, History of Ethnographic Film
MS 89 PZ, Mexican Film History
MS 91 PZ, History of American Broadcasting
MS 100 PZ, Asian Americans in Media: A Historical Survey
Okay, there's two that include television. But, literally, all of them are video-exclusive. And while I like video as much as the next person, it's not like the media studies major offerings aren't *already* ridiculously slanted towards film studies. This requirement doesn't fit my major concentration in the slightest. LAME.
I'm seriously thinking about planning a "Copyright and American Media" independent study for fall senior year and petitioning to have it fulfill this requirement. I'd already considered it just because it's a topic I have a lot of interest in (and is COMPLETELY neglected by all the Claremont Colleges), but now I see it also as a protest against the film-centrism of the Media Studies curriculum. There's *supposed* to be a reason we don't just call it Film Studies, guys...
Anyway, here's my planned schedule for next semester:
MS 82 Introduction to Video Production
ART 142 Intermediate Web Design (need to ask Carolyn to ask Prof Macko for a signature so that the registrar doesn't flip out that I haven't taken DigImaging yet)
ANTH 52 Human Sexuality
A politics course (probably either "Infrastructures of Justice" with Auerbach or "Intro to the Israeli-Arab Conflict")
One of the requirements is that we have to take a media history course. I am annoyed because pretty much all the "media history" courses are actually *film* history courses:
LIT 131 CM, Film History I (1925-1965)
LIT 132 CM, Film History II (1965-Present)
LIT 134 CM, Special Studies in Film
LIT 136 CM, American Film Genres
MS 45 PZ, Documentary Media
MS 47 PZ, Independent Film Cultures
MS 79 PZ, Silent Film
MS 86 PZ, History of Ethnographic Film
MS 89 PZ, Mexican Film History
MS 91 PZ, History of American Broadcasting
MS 100 PZ, Asian Americans in Media: A Historical Survey
Okay, there's two that include television. But, literally, all of them are video-exclusive. And while I like video as much as the next person, it's not like the media studies major offerings aren't *already* ridiculously slanted towards film studies. This requirement doesn't fit my major concentration in the slightest. LAME.
I'm seriously thinking about planning a "Copyright and American Media" independent study for fall senior year and petitioning to have it fulfill this requirement. I'd already considered it just because it's a topic I have a lot of interest in (and is COMPLETELY neglected by all the Claremont Colleges), but now I see it also as a protest against the film-centrism of the Media Studies curriculum. There's *supposed* to be a reason we don't just call it Film Studies, guys...
Anyway, here's my planned schedule for next semester:
MS 82 Introduction to Video Production
ART 142 Intermediate Web Design (need to ask Carolyn to ask Prof Macko for a signature so that the registrar doesn't flip out that I haven't taken DigImaging yet)
ANTH 52 Human Sexuality
A politics course (probably either "Infrastructures of Justice" with Auerbach or "Intro to the Israeli-Arab Conflict")