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Senior Seminar in Media Studies (COM 435)

Term: 2024-2025 Spring Semester

Faculty

Paige Chapman
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Matthew D Wysocki
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Leslie M Robison
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Schedule

Tue-Thu, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (1/22/2025 - 5/8/2025) Location: FCSTA KENAN 129

Description

This course emphasizes research, planning, and rewriting drafts. Students meet in a collaborative environment with their classmates to discuss and to fine-tune methodology and research questions. This course is designed to encourage rigorous reflection on what film and media are as technologies and as cultural industries. Students read theoretical essays, workshop, and develop a large-scale research project. Each instructor chooses a research interest on which to base the course, and establishes a seminar/workshop environment in which students become experts - not only on the topic at hand, but also in the practices of critical, theoretical, and historical film research; intellectual discourse; and writing a substantial essay.