Nov 09, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Media Arts and Studies, B.S.


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The Media Arts and Studies major offers students a balanced program mixing hands-on skills with liberal arts perspectives covering a range of issues and topics related to electronic media communication and electronic personal communication. In addition, students interested in careers in the film, television, video game, and radio/music industries can integrate professional or production and skills-based courses into their program of study. Recent additions to the curriculum have also expanded into video game studies, game design and development.

Socio-cultural media courses address the historical, political and social aspects of various forms of mediated communication. Media industry courses examine institutional, economic, and/or technological dimensions of traditional and new media systems and the interrelations among these industry segments. These courses may center on mass communication issues, interactive communication issues, or both.

Media production courses cover the traditional areas of audio and video production and the latest developments in multimedia, digital media and Web design and production. All Media Arts and Studies majors will take advantage of the experiential learning opportunity provided by a formal internship. The School of Journalism and Media has an excellent internship program which offers the opportunity to work with a wide variety of employers, including companies oriented to the provision of voice, data, and/or video products and services. In addition, students may pursue special interests in media arts and studies through independent study with any of the media arts and studies professors.

Degree Requirements


Each student completes the following:

College B.S. Requirements


Mathematics, statistics and computer science:


Complete 9 credits in mathematics, statistics, and/or computer sciences beyond the UK Core requirement. At least 3 hours must be in statistics.

Science Courses


Complete a minimum of 60 hours of science courses, with not more than 12 hours within the College of Communication and Information. These courses must be approved by an advisor in the College of Communication and Information and may be from the areas of mathematics, statistics, computer science, physical sciences, biological sciences, social and behavioral sciences, as well as from appropriate professional fields.

Subtotal: College B.S. Hours: 60


UK Core Requirements


See the UK Core section of this Catalog for the complete UK Core requirements . The courses listed below are (a) recommended by the college, or (b) required courses that also fulfill UK Core areas. Students should work closely with their advisor to complete the UK Core requirements.

I. Intellectual Inquiry in Arts and Creativity


II. Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities


III. Intellectual Inquiry in the Social Sciences


IV. Intellectual Inquiry in the Natural, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences


V. Composition and Communication I


VI. Composition and Communication II


VII. Quantitative Foundations


Choose one of the following:

VIII. Statistical Inferential Reasoning


IX. Community, Culture and Citizenship in the USA


X. Global Dynamics


UK Core hours: 30-32


Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR)


Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR): 6


Subtotal: Premajor hours: 9


plus 24 hours from the following:


Minor


Students must complete a minor offered through UK.

Subtotal: Major hours: 36


TOTAL HOURS: minimum of 120


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