The Bachelor of Arts in Media and Screen Studies offers courses in analysis and practice. Required courses offer students an opportunity to obtain the critical-thinking skills necessary to better understand media content, media technology, and media production. Students then decide how many production and analysis courses they want to take. Choosing from a broad range of electives, students can take more than half their major in media and film production courses, can take a majority of courses that critically examine media content and technology, or can combine courses in other ways.
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.
University-Wide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the University-Wide Requirements.
BA Language Requirements
All BA students are required to complete the BA language requirements.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
NUpath requirements Interpreting Culture (IC) and Societies and Institutions (SI) are met through the major course requirements.
NUpath requirements Creative Expression/Innovation (EI), Difference and Diversity (DD), and Ethical Reasoning (ER) may be met through electives in the major.
NUpath requirements Natural and Designed World (ND), Formal and Quantitative Reasoning (FQ), and Analyzing and Using Data (AD) must be met through general electives.
Media and Screen Studies Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to College | ||
| MSCR 1000 | Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern | 1 |
| Media and Screen Studies Common Requirements | ||
| MSCR 1220 | Media, Culture, and Society | 4 |
| MSCR 1320 | Media and Social Change | 4 |
| MSCR 1420 | Media History | 4 |
| Foundation Course (Production or Theory) | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Introduction to Film Production | ||
| Understanding Media | ||
| Diversity or Globalization Course | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Global Media | ||
| Digital Feminisms | ||
| Gender and Film | ||
| Media and Identity | ||
| Writing-Intensives | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 8 | |
| Digital Feminisms | ||
| Film Theory | ||
| Digital Media Culture | ||
| Media Audiences | ||
| Queer Media | ||
| TV History | ||
| Capstone (Production or Theory) | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Theories of Media and Culture | ||
| Production Capstone | ||
| Media and Screen Studies Electives | ||
| Complete five courses from the following list or media and screen studies courses not used to satisfy requirements above: | 20 | |
| Video Basics (with optional ARTD 2381) | ||
| Video: Sound and Image | ||
| Experimental Video | ||
| Narrative Filmmaking | ||
| American Film and Culture | ||
| Screenwriting | ||
| Documentary Production | ||
| Topics in Film Studies | ||
| Sound Production for Digital Media | ||
| Television Field Production | ||
| Television Studio Production | ||
| Digital Editing for TV | ||
| Special Effects and Postproduction for Television | ||
Media and Screen Studies Grade Requirement
No more than two grades below a C in media and screen studies courses may be used to fulfill degree requirements.
Media and Screen Studies Credit Requirement
52 total semester hours required in the major
Program Requirement
128 total semester hours required
Sample Four Years, Two Co-ops
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| MSCR 1000 | 1 | MSCR 1320 | 4 | Media and screen studies elective | 4 | Elective | 4 |
| MSCR 1220 | 4 | ENGW 1111 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 |
| Elective | 4 | Foreign language core course | 4 | ||||
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Foreign language core requirement | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 16 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| MSCR 1420 | 4 | Media and screen studies elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| MSCR 1230 or 2220 | 4 | Media and screen studies diversity/globalization course | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||
| Foreign language core course | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| EEAM 2000 | 1 | ||||||
| 16 | 17 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | Media and screen studies elective | 4 | Media and screen studies elective | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| Media and screen studies writing-intensive | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| MSCR Elective | 4 | ||||||
| Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| Co-op | 0 | MSCR 4623 | 4 | ||||
| Media and screen studies writing-intensive | 4 | ||||||
| Elective | 4 | ||||||
| Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 130 | |||||||