Concentration in Arts, Media, and Culture

Students Admitted Prior to Autumn 2006
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Overview

Concentration Coordinator: Beverly Naidus

This concentration focuses on how the broadly defined fields of art and media operate within culture, as well as how they transform it. Students study formal, aesthetic and socio-cultural ways of understanding literature, visual art, film, music or other media. Students are introduced to a range of fields and gain experience working in both American and international contexts, while at the same time specializing to some degree in a particular field such as visual arts, film, literature or media.

Career Options

Arts, Media and Culture prepares students for a range of careers, including media, museum work, public relations, public history, publishing and the arts. Also for students pursuing broad cultural literacy, as well as advanced study in performing and visual arts or the humanities.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Because students will have cultivated the insight unique to human being, they will be able to identify and explain interrelations among texts of apparently disparate discourses: literature, film, and visual arts.
• Students will have acquired the interpretive skills necessary to analyze individual texts of various kinds - literary, filmic, artistic - closely and critically. Students will be not just literate but visually literate.
• Students will understand the importance of history and culture as they shape and are in turn shaped by arts and media.
• Students will have had practical experience in the creative processes of one of the arts or media studied in the concentration.
• Students will be able to express the knowledge and experience described in the items listed above in clear, concise, and persuasive writing.

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