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MDST 2000-Introduction to Media StudiesWilliamsTTh 11:00AM-12:15PMNNThis course is a survey introduction to the complex and increasingly pervasive impact of mass media in the U.S. and around the world. It provides a foundation for helping you to understand how mass media – as a business, as well as a set of texts – operates. The course also explores contextual issues – how media texts and businesses are received by audiences and by regulatory odies.
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MDST 2200-Introduction to FilmMarshallMo 2:00PM-4:30PMNYYWe tend to take movies for granted. They are there for our entertainment. But movies are made by people in specific ways for specific purposes, and this course examines how films are made to elicit an emotional or intellectual response. We will investigate film structure—how meaning is created—and how this structure can be read and understood. What is the act of interpretation? How do we understand what we see on the screen? We will study film genres, the specific stories films tell us, and the ways films and their audience are part of the larger structure of the culture in which they exist.

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MDST 2305-Podcasting, Radio Sound ProductionMajerczykW 5:30pm-8:00pmNYStudents will learn the practical components of radio production including: story development, script writing, interview techniques, audio recording, editing of sound, mixing, and final production for broadcast. In addition, students will critically analyze the components of radio/podcast features. The course includes a lecture component and lab time where the instructor will consult with students about their projects.
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MDST 2508-Sports Media ProductionClayTTh 9:30AM-10:45AMNYIn conjunction with UVA's Athletic Foundation and the new ESPN/ACC Production studio inside JPJ, students in this course will participate in all roles associated with sports television production. From writing scripts to working as on-air broadcasters, students will rotate through experiential positions essential to real sports TV production. The class will meet weekly; written assignments will also be required.
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MDST 2508-Introduction to FilmmakingDiaMWF 9:00am-9:50amNYYDo you want to make a film? Are you interested in discovering how a movie gets made? Join this class to explore writing, filming, directing and editing. We will have hands-on classes and guest speakers to understand the world of filmmaking. The class together or in smaller group(s) will make a film at the end of the class. Through a series of lectures, demonstrations, and exercises, students will become familiar with the many tools used in physical production, with the goal of fostering their creative vision in a safe and inspiring workplace that is both professional and productive.
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MDST 2508-The Art of the Video EssayMorimotoTTh 5:00pm-6:15pmNYIn this course, students will learn both the theory and mechanics of critical video essays. Lectures will explore various methodologies of video criticism, and a required lab section will include exercises involving video editing, sound mixing for video, special effects, voiceover, and the use of text. In the latter half of the course, lab time will be used to work on and consult the instructor about individual projects.
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MDST 2690-Sports JournalismClayTTh 12:30PM-1:45PMNYThis course will cover all manner of media as it relates to sports journalism.Students will analyze published work across various mediums, learn the tools for reporting and writing different types of coverage, including features, profiles, long-form, game stories and more. Students will write articles, interview subjects, analyze sports journalism, participate in peer reviews and hear from some of the most prominent figures in sports journalism.
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MDST 2700-News WritingKellyTTh 8:00AM-9:15AM and TTh 9:30AM-10:45AMNYIntroductory course in news writing, emphasizing editorials, features, and reporting.
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MDST 3000-Theory and Criticism of MediaBodroghkozyW 5:00PM - 7:30PMNNThis course introduces students at the beginning of the major to theoretical and critical literature in the field. Topics range from the psychological and sociological experience of media, interpretation and analysis of media forms and aesthetics, theories of audience and reception, anthropological approaches to media as a cultural force, and contemporary theories of media from humanities and social sciences perspectives. The goal of the course is to provide a foundation for thinking critically about media and to give them a sense of media studies as a critical and theoretical field. Restricted to Media Studies majors.
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MDST 3050-History of MediaGoinTTh 11:00AM-12:15PMNNThis is a survey, lecture-format, course on the history of media forms, institutions, and technology from the origins of writing, invention of print technology, through the development of digital media. Attention to the specific characteristics of individual media, the changing role of media as a force in culture, and the continually transforming institutions and business of media will all be touched on. The role of media forms in the creation of public discourse and the social controls on media through censorship, legal constraints, and economic policies will also be examined, largely from within the context of the United States. Students will create a case study of a media work or artifact from a historical perspective. PREREQ MDST 2000.
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MDST 3108-Media Law VaidhyanathanT 5:00PM - 7:30PMYNYThis courses uses audio, video, and text to explore the basics of media law: Copyright; privacy; libel and defamation; and free speech. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to: Describe the tension between efforts to sustain an informed and responsible public in a democratic republic and protect individual and collective rights of expression; Identify legal agents in the global media ecosystem; Identify the powers of the various legal agents; Identify the legal responsibilities of the various agents; Grasp the basics of the First Amendment, free speech, defamation, privacy, copyright, and other areas of media law; Prepare for deeper analysis and further study of one or more of these areas of law.
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MDST 3402-War and the MediaWilliamsTTh 2:00PM-3:15PMYNYThis course examines media coverage of American wars from World War I to the present. Study of the evolution in media coverage of war provides an ideal vantage point for understanding the changing nature of warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries, war's impact on American society, and the ways in which political elites have attempted to mobilize public support for foreign conflicts. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.
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MDST 3404-Democratic Politics in the New Media EnvironmentChongM 2:00PM-4:30PMYNYThis course examines the ways a changing media system is altering the dynamics of public discourse and democratic politics in the United States. Throughout the course we will critically analyze the ways in which scholars from a wide range of disciplines have studied the connection between media and politics, the methods they have employed, and the validity of their findings and approaches in the new media environment in which we now live. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.
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MDST 3502-The Horror FilmMarshallTh 5:00pm-7:30pmYNYThe Horror Film is a survey of the development of the horror genre in cinema, studying its major styles and periods from the Silent to the Modern era. The course will explore several critical approaches to the genre including formalism, psychoanalysis, and feminism and discuss both the public attraction and critical reception to the genre.
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MDST 3504-Mexican CinemaGoinTTh 3:00PM-4:45PMYNYYYThis course takes a critical historical approach to investigate Mexico’s film from its inception to the present. Topics covered include major films, stars, filmmakers, and the rise of the Mexican film industry; and it aims to introduce students to doing historical research and criticism.
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MDST 3504-Hollywood Goes to AsiaKokasW 5:00PM-7:30PMYNYYFilm production between Asian and Euro-American companies is rapidly on the rise. The fundamental objective of the course is to cultivate a rigorous theoretical understanding of the media industries within a global Asian network. We will ask: What are the cultural, political and economic implications of transnational co-productions both for global and domestic film markets?
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MDST 3504-Comparative Histories of the InternetDriscollTTh 9:30AM-10:45AMYNYExamines the dynamic global transformations in print, broadcast, and digital media in an international and comparative context. Considers historical, institutional, and textual factors that impact media in local and global contexts. Examines the critical role of media in the long history of globalization and focuses on a number of cultural, technological, and economic issues addressed by media and globalization at the turn of the 21st century.
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MDST 3504-Sound and CinemaHamiltonMW 3:30PM-4:45PMYNYYThis global cinema history class will proceed chronologically from the dawn of the sound era (early 1930s) to the early 1970s, looking at ways sound shaped filmmaking throughout this period and introducing students to various theoretical and critical writings on the relationship between visual and the aural.
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MDST 3504-Cinema, Politics, & Society in South AsiaBanarjeeW 2:00PM-4:30PMYNYYThis undergraduate seminar will use a collection of assorted films to study the contours of politics and society in India, and greater South Asia, since Independence from colonial rule. The course will investigate important questions on economic development, inequality, ethnicity, conflict, terrorism and political development in South Asia guided by critically celebrated films, and supported by academic readings from multiple disciplines - Political Science, Media Studies, Communications and Sociology.
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MDST 3504-Hong Kong Film and Cultural IdentifyMorimotoW 4:00pm-6:30pmYNY
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MDST 3505-Asian American Media CulturesDaveTTh 2:00PM-3:15PMYNYThis course examines the diverse production by and representations of Asian Americans and their influences on U.S. media cultures that include film, television, literature, and social media platforms. We explore how Asian Americans shape and intersect with discussions about race, gender, nationality, migration and technology and the evolution of media stereotypes that range from the “model minority” and “the tiger mother” to the “techno-geek”.
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MDST 3508-News Documentary ProductionAndrewsTTh 12:30PM-1:45PMY (or Practice-not both)Y (or Elective-not both)This is a course in which reporters and videographers will produce long form video news stories or short documentaries, with the topics ranging from investigative to creative. Strong previous experience and skills in reporting or video is a pre-req. Teams of reporters and videographers will each produce two long form stories/docs with or without an on camera reporter. Class time will deconstruct the best news and sports documentaries. Practice of Media OR Elective.
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MDST 3510-Games ResearchDuncanMW 2:00PM-3:35PMYNIn this course, we will survey the field of game studies through the lens of games research methods and methodologies. We will address qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method research, with an emphasis on players in games and in gaming communities. Students will develop individual research proposals aimed at answering novel player research questions.
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MDST 3510-Communities and Cultures of Media FandomMorimotoTTh 3:30pm-4:45pmYNRecent upheavals in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong have foregrounded differences between local Hong Kong and Chinese ethnic identities. This course explores how Hong Kong film and media reflect and inform local cultural identity. We’ll focus on both familiar works and on those less well known outside Hong Kong, as a means of better grasping ongoing struggles over political and cultural autonomy in the SAR. Students who have taken Hong Kong Film and Cultural Identity as MDST 3559 cannot take this course for credit.
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MDST 3559-History of American Broadcast NewsBodroghkozyTTh 2:00PM-3:15PMYNThis course traces the development of national news broadcasting in the United States from the 1920s to the present.
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MDST 3559-Superhero MediaDuncanTTh 3:30PM-4:45PMYNIn this course, we will take a transmedia approach to superheroes, looking at their roots in myth, their dominance in comic books and graphic novels, their adaptation in television and film, and embodied superheroic play in interactive media such as digital and tabletop games. This course will cut across multiple media, engaging with superheroes as a genre and a driving narrative force in media industries.
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MDST 3600-Women and TelevisionClayMW 2:00PM-3:15PMYNYExamines how television addresses women, how it represents women, and how women respond to the medium. Explores the relationship between the female audience and television by focusing on both contemporary and historical issues. Areas of particular concern include: how women have responded to television as technology; how specific genres have targeted women; how female-focused specialty channels have addressed women; and how specific programming and genres have mediated the changing status of women from the 1950s to the present. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.
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MDST 3650-Shooting the WesternLittleMW 5:00PM-6:15PMYNYThis course provides an overview of the enduring genre of the American Western in its classic and revised forms. The course will address the social and historical contexts informing the films. Students will be asked to perform both cultural and formal analysis of the cinematic texts.
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MDST 3710-Comics & Sequential ArtDuncanTTh 12:30PM-1:45PMYNThis course addresses the medium of comics, including comic books, graphic novels, la bande dessinée, fumetti, and manga. Addressing comics as media, we will investigate comics form, publishing, creative movements, and adaptations into televisual media. Students will engage with primary comics sources, comic studies scholarship, and each others’ creative work.
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MDST 3720-Social Media and Global South SocietiesNemerMWF 1:00PM-1:50PMYNYThis course studies the relationship between social media and Global South societies. Students in this course will analyze the various theories related to the effects and affordances of social media on ideological polarization, social influence, social capital, and social movements. Students will be required to look beyond positive/negative effects of social media, and conduct in-depth interrogations about issues that surround them.
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MDST 3750-Money, Media, and TechnologySwartzTTh 2:00PM-3:15PMYNYMoney is one of the oldest media technologies in the world, but in recent years a variety of experiments from Venmo to Bitcoin have emerged, promising to reinvent the form of money itself. This class looks at the historical, social, and cultural dimensions of money as a media technology.
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MDST 3800-Field Experience in Media StudiesLittleNNProvides an opportunity for students to get credit for field work, in the area of media studies. Students must put a proposal together for the project with a faculty sponsor, which must be approved by the add/drop deadlines. Restricted to Media Studies Majors.
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MDST 4010-Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing or Research ProjectYNWriting of a thesis or production or a project with appropriately researched documentation, under the supervision of the faculty DMP thesis readers or project supervisor.
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MDST 4510Internet-Distributed TV in a Global ContextCarterM 5:00PM-7:30PMYNYYThis course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of television in the Internet era. Employing a global approach to television, we will contemplate and probe the recent rise of Internet portals, VOD, and SVOD services and the varied practices, incipient norms, and content associated with these.
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MDST 4510-Celebrities of ColorGoinM 3:30PM-6:00PMYNYPaying particular attention to how race and ethnicity intersect with the phenomenon of celebrity in the media, this highly student-driven class will investigate celebrities of color through both historical and analytical lenses. In examining the increasingly self-aware culture associated with celebrity, we will discuss the ways in which celebrity is conceived, constructed, performed, and discussed, as well as how it shapes notions of identity.
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MDST 4510-Political Economy of CommunicationAliTTh 3:30PM-4:45PMY (or Capstone-not both)NY (or Elective-not both)YThis survey course introduces students to the political economy of media. Central themes include political economy’s historical development, its usefulness to the study of media and communications, and its contemporary applications in scholarly research. Students will be introduced to the power dynamics and institutional forces that impact media institutions, industries, ownership, cultural production, consumption and distribution in the US and elsewhere.
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MDST 4510-Global Environmental MediaKokasTu 5:00PM-7:30PMY (or Capstone-not both)NYY (or Elective-not both)From analysis of documentary, narrative film, animation, gaming, experimental video, and social media, the class will provide students with the tools to bridge the gap between media and scientific messages about environmental issues. Students will develop critical tools to understand the aesthetic, environmental and industrial characteristics of different media practices related to some of the most significant issues facing our world.
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MDST 4670-White Out: Screening White SupremacyLittleMW 2:00PM-3:15PMYNYThe course will draw from multiple genres and time periods to present an overview of how cinematic projections of whiteness have served to reinforce white supremacy. Equally important, students will examine films that counter the medium’s terrifying consecration and preservation of white privilege, films that hold up whiteness for critical inspection.
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MDST 4960-Advanced Independent Projects in Media StudiesYNThis course is designed to allow students to pursue independent research and study of a topic that is not contained within the course offerings of Media Studies. Restricted to Media Studies majors.
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MDST 7701-Media and Everyday LifeCavalcanteTTh 9:30AM-10:45AMYNMedia and Everyday Life turns a critical eye towards media’s relationship to the everyday. We will conceptualize media as central forces in re-presenting, demarcating and franchising the ordinary. This course is designed to examine how media is produced as ordinary and universally intelligible (media production), how it represents the everyday (media texts), and how audiences phenomenologically engage with media in everyday life (media reception and use).
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MDST 7704-Political Economy of CommunicationAliTTh 3:30PM-4:45PMThis survey course introduces students to the political economy of media. Central themes include political economy’s historical development, its usefulness to the study of media & communications, & its contemporary applications in scholarly research. Students will be introduced to the power dynamics & institutional forces that impact media institutions, industries, ownership, cultural production, consumption & distribution in the US & elsewhere.
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MDST 7803-Computational MediaDriscollTTh 11:00AM-12:15PMComputers are universal media. Our intimacy with computers shapes how we think about ourselves, our communities, histories, cultures, and society. Learn to program these "thinking machines" as an act of philosophical inquiry and personal expression, challenging your beliefs about creativity, intelligence, randomness, and communication. Students with no previous experience are especially welcome!
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MDST 8000-Media, Culture & TechnologySwartzTTh 12:30PM-1:45PMThis is a core course that surveys key texts in Media Studies. The course take a histroical approach to the development of the field, but also surveys the various developments in the social sciences, the humanities, and film studies relevant to the interdisciplinary study of media.
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MDST 8966-Master's Thesis DevelopmentAliW 2:00PM-4:30PMStudents meet as a cohort to translate their intellectual interests into a specific thesis project through iterative development, critique, and refinement of their research questions and proposed methods. Students will read and critique published work, gaining a sense of best practices in research design. This course is heavily reliant on peer feedback and collaboration. The culmination of this class is a thesis proposal.
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