Academic Catalog

Screen Cultures - B.A.

This B.A. degree requires 90 liberal arts credits out of the 120 credits required for graduation.

Summary

Screen Cultures B.A. Major Requirements41-44
Integrative Core Curriculum Requirements and Electives 176-79
Total Credits120

Degree Requirements

No more than five courses, including Foundations courses, may be taken at the 100-level.
At least four courses, including Foundations courses, must be taken at the 300- or 400-level.
FOUNDATIONS
CNPH 10100Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis3
or TVR 12200 Introduction to Media Aesthetics and Analysis
CNPH 21400Hollywood and American Film4
SCRE 10000FLEFF (Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival) Immersion1
SCRE 11100Global Screen Cultures3
CNPH 30000Fiction Film Theory3
or CNPH 30100 History and Theory of Documentary
HISTORIES, INDUSTRIES, MODES 1
Select two courses from the following:6-8
ARTH 13500
Introduction to Visual Culture
ARTH 28500
Art since 1960
ARTH 39500
Performance, Institutional Critique, and the Museum
CNPH 30200
Selected Topics in Cinema and Photography
EMED 12000
Introduction to Emerging Media
EMED 32000
Utopias and Dystopias of Emerging Media
TVR 12100
Introduction to Mass Media
TVR 12400
Introduction to Media Industries
GENRES AND REPRESENTATIONS 1
Select two courses from the following:6
ARTH 24300
Gender and Visual Culture
ARTH 28700
Latinx Art in the United States
CNPH 30500
Contemporary Film Criticism
CSCR 21100
American Gangster: Social Portrayals of Gangs
CSCR 25000
Hip-Hop Cultures
CSCR 26100
Watching Race in American Media
PHIL 24000
Philosophy in Film
POLT 10200
Media and Politics
RLST 20100
Religion and Culture
TVR 33500
Electronic Media Criticism
GLOBAL SCREENS 1
Select two courses from the following:6
ARTH 36600
Art and Revolution in Latin America
CNPH 20700
European Cinema
CNPH 31000
British Comedy: Film, Television, and Radio
GERM 25000
History of German Film
ITAL 35000
Italian Culture through Cinema
POLT 33200
Africa through Film: Images and Reality
SPAN 43700
Contemporary Spanish Culture through Film
TVR 22000
Global Flow of Information
SCREEN CULTURES ELECTIVES 1
Select two additional courses with the attribute SCE; these electives can be drawn from the courses listed above but should not repeat courses already taken to satisfy the area requirements. These additional electives must be at the 200 level or above. Students may also apply up to three credits of SCRE 39900 Screen Cultures Independent Study or SCRE 40100 Screen Cultures Internship towards this requirement.6-7
CAPSTONE
SCRE 45000Capstone Seminar in Screen Cultures3
Total Credits41