Media Arts Pathways
Pathways & Curriculum
For First Year Students
Each year there are opportunities for first year students to combine interdisciplinary studies with some media arts theory or practice. Programs such as Made for Contemplation, Emerging Order, Gender and Media, or Hollywood are examples.
In 2008 Julia Zay and Chauncey Herbison will be offering Hop on Pop: Investigating and Intervening in American Popular Culture.
Specialized Media Study
Each year two of the faculty offer a year-long foundation program called Mediaworks. In spring quarter interested students complete a written application (available from Academic Advising) that asks for evidence of prior interdisciplinary study, a writing sample, and some experience with media criticism. No previous production training is required for this program. Mediaworks is for sophomores and above. Click here to access the website for the 2007-08 Mediaworks class.
In 2008 Mediaworks in Context: Sustainability and Justice will be taught by Laurie Meeker and a visiting faculty member.
Interdivisional Programs
Annually students are invited to explore a wide range of interdisciplinary programs that also feature some media practice. These are for sophomores and above. Programs in the past have included: Local Knowledge, Museums, Fashioning the Body, and Animated Visions: Allegories of Resistance
In 2008 Ruth Hayes and Lucia Harrison will be teaching Image and Sequence.
Advanced Work in Media Studies
Students can apply for spaces in classes that emphasize the completion of individual and collaborative projects. Examples of these kinds of advanced programs include: SOS: Media, Art Media Praxis, and Senior Thesis. Students also can pursue independent work in an individual contract as juniors or seniors.
In 2008 we will be offering Media Artist Studio, taught by Sally Cloninger.
In addition we support a wide variety of internships for juniors and seniors (from the Media Services Internship program to placements at local, regional and national media organizations). In the past students have received internships at CNN in Atlanta, POV in NYC, Dreamworks in LA, KCTS in Seattle, and many other production facilties. Students also have interned at media centers, archives, museums, and with community action groups.