- Concentrations and course offerings may vary by campus and/or by program modality. Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for the course availability each term at your campus or within your program modality.
- Certain options within the program may be required at certain campuses or for certain program modalities. Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for requirements at your campus or for your program modality.
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
Universitywide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.
BA Language Requirements
All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
NUpath attributes Creative Expression and Innovation (EI), Interpreting Culture (IC), and Societies and Institutions (SI) are met through the major course requirements.
In order to graduate, students must complete Natural and Designed World (ND), Formal and Quantitative Reasoning (FQ), Analyzing and Using Data (AD), Differences and Diversity (DD), and Ethical Reasoning (ER) in their electives.
Media Arts Courses
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ARTF 1000 | Art and Design at Northeastern | 1 |
| ARTD 1001 and ARTD 1002 | Media Art, Culture, and Social Justice and Seminar for ARTD 1001 | 4 |
| Art and Design Fundamentals Required | ||
| ARTF 1240 and ARTF 1241 | Making with Video, Sound, and Animation and Making with Video, Sound, and Animation Tools | 2 |
| Art and Design Fundamentals Electives | ||
| Complete three of the following: | 6 | |
| Representational Drawing | ||
| Abstract Drawing | ||
| Elements of Visual Composition (with optional ARTF 1221) | ||
| Making with Form and Materials and Making with Form and Materials Tools | ||
| Designing Interactive Experiences and Designing Interactive Experiences Tools | ||
| Art and Design History | ||
| ARTH 1001 and ARTH 1002 | Visual Intelligence and Seminar in Visual Intelligence | 4 |
| ARTH 2212 | Survey of the Still and Moving Image | 4 |
| Degree Project | ||
| ARTD 4530 | Media Arts Degree Project | 4 |
| Media Art Basics Electives | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 10 | |
| Introduction to Photography and Photo Tools | ||
| Animation Basics and Animation Tools | ||
| Video Basics and Video Tools | ||
| Art and Design Electives | ||
| Complete any two courses not applied to other requirements of this program in the ARTD, ARTE, ARTG, ARTH, or ARTS subject codes for which prerequisites have been met. | 8-9 | |
| If ARTD 3000 Topics in Media Arts (or any other topics course in the subjects listed above) is completed more than once, the additional completions may be allowed toward the electives. | ||
Communication Studies Courses
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Communication Studies Common Requirements | ||
| COMM 1101 | Introduction to Communication Studies | 4 |
| COMM 1112 | Public Speaking | 4 |
| or COMM 2301 | Communication Research Methods | |
| Foundation Course | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Persuasion and Rhetoric | ||
| Communication Theory | ||
| Principles of Organizational Communication | ||
| Communication in a Digital Age | ||
| Cluster Course | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Sex, Relationships, and Communication | ||
| Global and Intercultural Communication | ||
| Communication and Gender | ||
| Communication Law | ||
| Free Speech in Cyberspace | ||
| Writing-Intensive Courses | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 8 | |
| Mobile Communication | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Interpersonal Communication | ||
| Communication and Inclusion | ||
| Political Communication | ||
| Communication Criticism | ||
| Public Relations Principles | ||
| Environmental Issues, Communication, and the Media | ||
| Free Speech: Law and Practice | ||
| Communication and Sexualities | ||
| Theories of Conflict and Negotiation | ||
| Nonverbal Social Interaction | ||
| Youth and Communication Technology | ||
| Crisis Communication and Image Management | ||
| Communication Studies Electives | ||
| Complete three COMM courses. | 12 | |
Integrative Requirement
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Integrative Requirement | ||
| COMM 3415 | Communication Criticism | 4 |
Communication Studies Grade Requirement
No more than two grades below a C in COMM courses may be used to fulfill degree requirements.
Program Requirement
128 total semester hours required
Sample Plan of Study: Four Years, Two Co-ops in Spring/Summer 1
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ARTF 1000 or COMM 1000 | 1 | ARTF 1240 and ARTF 1241 | 2 | COMM elective | 4 | COMM elective | 4 |
| ARTD 1001 and ARTD 1002 | 4 | ARTF elective 1 | 2 | ARTF elective 2 | 2 | Elective | 4 |
| ARTH 1001 and ARTH 1002 | 4 | ARTH 2212 | 4 | ARTF elective 3 | 2 | ||
| COMM 1101 | 4 | COMM 1112 | 4 | ||||
| ENGW 1111 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 16 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ARTD basics elective 1 | 5 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | COMM elective | 4 |
| COMM cluster | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| COMM foundation | 4 | ||||||
| COMM writing-intensive | 4 | ||||||
| EEAM 2000 | 1 | ||||||
| 18 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ARTD basics elective 2 | 5 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | Foreign language | 4 |
| COMM writing-intensive | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Art + design elective 1 | 4 | ||||||
| Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| COMM 3415 | 4 | ARTD 4530 | 4 | ||||
| Foreign language | 4 | Foreign language | 4 | ||||
| Art + design elective 2 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| 16 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 132 | |||||||