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Areas of Study

BS, Media, Culture, and Communication

Our curriculum is organized around the five areas of study described below. These are not strict tracks, but thematic clusters to help students plan their path of intellectual inquiry through the major.

Global Communication and Media

Courses examine global media production, circulation and consumption in relation to citizenship and identity, immigration and diasporas, human rights and social movements, political-economic inequalities, and geopolitics.

Framing Courses

  • MCC-UE 1300   Media and Globalization
  • MCC-UE 1037   Music and Media
  • MCC-UE 0005  Language and Communication

Focus Courses

  • MCC-UE 1002   Space and Place in Human Communication
  • MCC-UE 1005   The Culture Industries (Note: was a framing course through F24, effective Spring 2025 it is a focus)
  • MCC-UE 1011   Media and Migration
  • MCC-UE 1016   Media Audiences
  • MCC-UE 1020   The Business of Media
  • MCC-UE 1022   Latino Media
  • MCC-UE 1023   East Asian Media
  • MCC-UE 1302   Global Television
  • MCC-UE 1304   Global Media and International Law
  • MCC-UE 1306   Global Media Flows
  • MCC-UE 1310   Culture and Media in Urban China
  • MCC-UE 1314   South Asian Diaspora: Media and Cultural Politics
  • MCC-UE 1340   Religion and Media
  • MCC-UE 1341   Middle East Media
  • MCC-UE 1342   Sounds In and Out of Africa
  • MCC-UE 1351   War As Media
  • MCC-UE 1352   Revolution and Media       
  • MCC-UE 1401   Global Cultures and Identities
  • MCC-UE 1403   Postcolonial Visual Culture
  • MCC-UE 1405   Copyright, Commerce, and Culture
  • MCC-UE 1407   Gender, Sex, and The Global
  • MCC-UE 1410   Global Visual Culture
  • MCC-UE 1413   Cultural Memory
  • MCC-UE 1431   Topics in Digital Humanities: Street Food and Urban Family (Shanghai)
  • MCC-UE 9451   Global Media Seminar: Media in China
  • MCC-UE 9452   Global Media Seminar: Media Activism and Democracy in Italy
  • MCC-UE 9453   Global Media Seminar: Post Communist Media Systems
  • MCC-UE 9454   Global Media Seminar: France and Europe
  • MCC-UE 9455   Global Media Seminar: Latin America
  • MCC-UE 9456   Global Media Seminar: Australia
  • MCC-UE 9457   Global Media Seminar: Britain and Europe
  • MCC-UE 1762   Cultural Geography of Commodities

Visual Culture and Sound Studies 

Courses focus on the ways that visual and sound media shape everyday life on and offline, especially through politics and power.

Framing Courses

  • MCC-UE 1006   Television: History and Form
  • MCC-UE 1015   Advertising and Consumer Society
  • MCC-UE 1037   Music and Media
  • MCC-UE 1412   Introduction to Visual Culture

Focus Courses

  • MCC-UE 1007   Film: History and Form
  • MCC-UE 1008   Video Game Economies
  • MCC-UE 1009   Psychoanalysis: Desire and Culture
  • MCC-UE 1012   Crime, Violence, and Media
  • MCC-UE 1021   Dead Media Research Studio
  • MCC-UE 1022   Latino Media
  • MCC-UE 1024   Amateur Media
  • MCC-UE 1029   New Media Research Studio
  • MCC-UE 1030   Architecture as Media
  • MCC-UE 1031   Digital Media: Theory and Practice
  • MCC-UE 1036   On the Phone: Telephone and Mobile Communication
  • MCC-UE 1043   Queer and Trans Games Studies
  • MCC-UE 1044   Black Screen Cultures
  • MCC-UE 1045   Queer Film and TV
  • MCC-UE 1065   Media Events and Spectacle
  • MCC-UE 1140   Screening History
  • MCC-UE 1141   Hollywood Films and American Life
  • MCC-UE 1142   Critical Video: Theory & Practice
  • MCC-UE 1151   Media History of New York
  • MCC-UE 1152   Cultural Capital: Media and Arts in NYC
  • MCC-UE 1162   Cultural Capital: Food and Media in NYC
  • MCC-UE 1171   History of Computing
  • MCC-UE 1302   Global Television
  • MCC-UE 1339   Theory of the Digital
  • MCC-UE 1342   Sounds In and Out of Africa
  • MCC-UE 1345   Fashion and Power
  • MCC-UE 1346   Fame
  • MCC-UE 1347   Cultural History of the Screen
  • MCC-UE 1351   War As Media
  • MCC-UE 1352   Revolution and Media
  • MCC-UE 1403   Postcolonial Visual Culture
  • MCC-UE 1409   Consumption, Culture, and Identity
  • MCC-UE 1410   Global Visual Culture
  • MCC-UE 1411   Visual Culture in Science and Technology
  • MCC-UE 1413   Cultural Memory
  • MCC-UE 1517   Photography and the Visual Archive
  • MCC-UE 1717   Listening: Noise, Sound, and Music

Technology and Society

Courses focus on information and communication technologies and their social, political and ethical implications.

Framing Courses

  • MCC-UE 1027    Media and the Environment
  • MCC-UE 1034    Technology and Society
  • MCC-UE 1039    Platform Cultures
  • MCC-UE 1349    Data and Society
  • MCC-UE 1423    AI and Society

Focus Courses

  • MCC-UE 1006   Television: History and Form
  • MCC-UE 1007    Film: History and Form
  • MCC-UE 1008    Video Game Economies
  • MCC-UE 1012    Crime, Violence, and Media
  • MCC-UE 1020    The Business of Media
  • MCC-UE 1021    Dead Media Research Studio
  • MCC-UE 1024    Amateur Media
  • MCC-UE 1026    Disability, Technology, and Media
  • MCC-UE 1028    Ethics and Media
  • MCC-UE 1029    New Media Research Studio
  • MCC-UE 1030    Architecture as Media
  • MCC-UE 1031    Digital Media: Theory and Practice
  • MCC-UE 1032    Social Media Practicum
  • MCC-UE 1033    Critical Making
  • MCC-UE 1036    On the Phone: Telephone and Mobile Communication
  • MCC-UE 1037    Music and Media
  • MCC-UE 1043    Queer and Trans Games Studies
  • MCC-UE 1043    Black Screen Cultures
  • MCC-UE 1141    Hollywood Films and American Life
  • MCC-UE 1142    Critical Video: Theory & Practice
  • MCC-UE 1151    Media History of New York
  • MCC-UE 1154    Advanced Coding Workshop
  • MCC-UE 1171    History of Computing
  • MCC-UE 1300    Media and Globalization
  • MCC-UE 1303    Privacy and Media Technology
  • MCC-UE 1305    Communication and International Development
  • MCC-UE 1339    Theory of the Digital
  • MCC-UE 1347    Cultural History of the Screen
  • MCC-UE 1349    Data and Society
  • MCC-UE 1402    Marxism and Culture
  • MCC-UE 1405    Copyright, Commerce and Culture
  • MCC-UE 1406    Hacker Culture and Politics
  • MCC-UE 1411    Visual Culture in Science and Technology
  • MCC-UE 1431   Topics in Digital Humanities: Street Food and Urban Family (Shanghai)
  • MCC-UE 1508    Print: History and Form
  • MCC-UE 1571   The Rise of Internet Media
  • MCC-UE 1585   Creative Coding
  • MCC-UE 1717   Listening: Noise, Sound, and Music
     

Media Industries and Politics

Courses examine the political economy of media and information industries, the use of media to shape and mobilize public opinion, social movements, and electoral politics.

Framing Courses

  • MCC-UE 1013  Political Communication 
  • MCC-UE 1008  Video Game Economies
  • MCC-UE 1015  Advertising and Consumer Society

Focus Courses

  • MCC-UE 1005  The Culture Industries (Note: was a framing course through F24, effective Spring 2025 it is a focus)
  • MCC-UE 1010   Censorship in American Culture
  • MCC-UE 1014   Mass Persuasion and Propaganda
  • MCC-UE 1017   Youth Media and Social Change
  • MCC-UE 1023   East Asian Media
  • MCC-UE 1025   Race and Media
  • MCC-UE 1027   Media and the Environment
  • MCC-UE 1028   Ethics and Media
  • MCC-UE 1035   Forensic Media
  • MCC-UE 1040   Media and the Culture of Health and Disease
  • MCC-UE 1065   Media Events and Spectacle
  • MCC-UE 1140   Screening History
  • MCC-UE 1152   Cultural Capital: Media and Arts in NYC
  • MCC-UE 1162   Cultural Capital: Food and Media in NYC
  • MCC-UE 1304   Global Media and International Law
  • MCC-UE 1340   Religion and Media
  • MCC-UE 1341   Middle East Media
  • MCC-UE 1346   Fame
  • MCC-UE 1402   Marxism and Culture
  • MCC-UE 1404   Media and the Culture of Money
  • MCC-UE 1406   Hacker Culture & Politics
  • MCC-UE 1408   Queer and Trans Identity
  • MCC-UE 1409   Consumption, Culture, and Identity
  • MCC-UE 1419   Mediating Love, Sex, and God
  • MCC-UE 1750   Rethinking Public Relations (formerly PR Theory & Process)
  • MCC-UE 1762   Cultural Geography of Commodities
  • MCC-UE 1800   Political Rhetoric
  • MCC-UE 1821   Media, Policy, and Regulation
  • MCC-UE 1826   Media Activism and Social Movements

Interaction and Experience

Courses explore how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the material world in various social, cultural, and technological contexts. 

Framing Courses

  • MCC-UE 0005    Language and Culture
  • MCC-UE 1009    Psychoanalysis: Desire and Culture
  • MCC-UE 1019    Media and Identity
  • MCC-UE 1025    Race and Media

Focus Courses

  • MCC-UE 1002    Space and Place in Human Communication
  • MCC-UE 1011     Media and Migration
  • MCC-UE 1013     Political Communication
  • MCC-UE 1016     Media Audiences
  • MCC-UE 1026     Disability, Technology and Media
  • MCC-UE 1027     Media and the Environment 
  • MCC-UE 1032    Social Media Practicum
  • MCC-UE 1035    Forensic Media
  • MCC-UE 1040    Media and the Culture of Health and Disease
  • MCC-UE 1041    Resisting Dystopia
  • MCC-UE 1105    The Psychic Life of Media
  • MCC-UE 1162    Cultural Capital: Food and Media in NYC
  • MCC-UE 1345    Fashion and Power
  • MCC-UE 1401    Global Cultures and Identities
  • MCC-UE 1404    Media and the Culture of Money
  • MCC-UE 1407     Gender, Sex and The Global
  • MCC-UE 1408    Queer and Trans Identity
  • MCC-UE 1419    Mediating Love, Sex, and God
  • MCC-UE 1508    Print: History and Form
  • MCC-UE 1571    The Rise of Internet Media
  • MCC-UE 1700     Communicating Gender & Identity
  • MCC-UE 1745     Organizational Communication
  • MCC-UE 1826     Media Activism and Social Movements