- 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 requirements Interpreting Culture (IC) and Societies and Institutions (SI) are met through the major course requirements.
NUpath requirements Creative Expression/Innovation (EI), Analyzing and Using Data (AD), Difference and Diversity (DD), and Ethical Reasoning (ER) may be met through electives in the major.
NUpath requirements Natural and Designed World (ND) and Formal and Quantitative Reasoning (FQ) must be met through general electives.
Media and Screen Studies Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Media and Screen Studies Common Requirements | ||
| MSCR 1220 | Media, Culture, and Society | 4 |
| MSCR 1320 | Media and Social Change | 4 |
| or MSCR 1420 | Media History | |
| Foundation Course | ||
| 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-Intensive | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 8 | |
| Digital Feminisms | ||
| Digital Media Culture | ||
| Media Audiences | ||
| Film Theory | ||
| Queer Media | ||
| TV History | ||
Media and Screen Studies Electives
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete three courses from MSCR or from the following: | 12 | |
| Video Basics | ||
| Video: Sound and Image | ||
| Experimental Video | ||
| Sound Production for Digital Media | ||
| Television Field Production | ||
| Television Studio Production | ||
| Digital Editing for TV | ||
| Special Effects and Postproduction for Television | ||
| Production Capstone | ||
History Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| History Colloquium | ||
| HIST 1200 | Historical Research and Writing | 1 |
| HIST 1201 | First-Year Seminar | 4 |
| History Seminar and Historical Writing | ||
| HIST 2301 | The History Seminar | 4 |
| HIST 2302 | Historical Writing | 1 |
| Pre-1800 History Elective | ||
| Complete one course from the following: | 4 | |
| Law and History | ||
| Introduction to Middle Eastern History | ||
| Introduction to Latin American History | ||
| Pirates, Planters, and Patriots: Making the Americas, 1492–1804 | ||
| Japanese Literature and Culture | ||
| Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1500 | ||
| History of Espionage 1: Antiquity to World War II | ||
| Colonial and Revolutionary America | ||
| Renaissance to Enlightenment | ||
| The Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Birth of Modern Britain | ||
| Africa and the World in Early Times | ||
| Assassinations in World History | ||
| History Elective | ||
| Complete two HIST courses at any level in any field. | 8 | |
| Introductory-Level Course | ||
| Complete one course in the following range, not used to fulfill another requirement: | 4 | |
HIST 1001–HIST 1999 | ||
| Intermediate/Advanced History | ||
| Complete minimum of one history course numbered 2000 to 2999 (Excluding HIST 2301 and HIST 2302). | 4 | |
| Advanced History | ||
| Complete minimum of one history course numbered 3000 to 4999 (Excluding HIST 4701). | 4 | |
| Capstone | ||
| HIST 4701 | Capstone Seminar | 4 |
Integrative Requirement
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| HIST 1357 | History of Information in the United States: Media, Technology, Law | 4 |
Media and Screen Studies Grade Requirement
No more than two grades below a C in media and screen studies courses may be used to satisfy degree requirements.
Program Requirement
130 total semester hours required
Sample Plan of Study: Four Years, Two Co-ops
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ENGW 1111 | 4 | MSCR 1320 or 1420 | 4 | Foreign Language | 4 | Elective | 4 |
| HIST 1200 and HIST 1201 | 5 | Intro-level HIST course | 4 | Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 |
| MSCR 1000 | 1 | MSCR foundation course | 4 | ||||
| MSCR 1220 | 4 | Foreign Language | 4 | ||||
| Foreign Language | 4 | ||||||
| 18 | 16 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| EEAM 2000 | 1 | Co-op | Co-op | Elective | 4 | ||
| HIST 2301 and HIST 2302 | 5 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| MSCR diversity/globalization | 4 | ||||||
| MSCR elective | 4 | ||||||
| Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 18 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Intermediate/advanced history elective 1 | 4 | Co-op | Co-op | Elective | 4 | ||
| MSCR elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| MSCR writing-intensive | 4 | ||||||
| Pre-1800 history elective | 4 | ||||||
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| HIST 1357 | 4 | HIST 4701 | 4 | ||||
| Advanced history elective | 4 | Intermediate/advanced history elective 3 | 4 | ||||
| Intermediate/advanced history elective 2 | 4 | MSCR elective | 4 | ||||
| MSCR writing-intensive | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| 16 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 132 | |||||||