Student Learning Goals

Below are the program learning goals mapped to College-wide goals for student learning.

1. Familiarize students with the disciplinary concerns, topical parameters, and methodological approaches of 媒体 and film studies.
   1. The historical and sociocultural implications of modern mass 媒体, digital technologies, and distributed network forms, including viewpoints from different cultures and multiple historical periods. (Ia, Ib, Ic， IIb, IIIb, IVd).
   2. The intersections of 媒体 studies with other academic disciplines and approaches, including sociology, history, anthropology/ ethnography, discourse analysis, and critical 理论. (Ia, IIb, IVd).
   3. The formal characteristics of major modern 媒体. (Ic, IIa, IIb).
   4. A special focus on the historical development, social and cultural dimensions, representational capabilities, formal characteristics, and narrative structure of film. (Ia, Ib, Ic， IIa, IIb, IVd).
2. Develop critical literacy in forms of 媒体 and communication by providing a foundation in the central concepts (theoretical, practical, socio-political, and aesthetic) and contexts of 媒体ted communication. (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIIa, IIIb).
3. Encourage ethical thinking about the relationship of modern 媒体 to power and social structures, including self-reflexivity on the ways that social position affects access to and use of 媒体 technologies. (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIe, IIId, IVb, IVc).
4. 探索 the application of current and developing forms of 媒体 and communication. (Ic, IIId, IVa).
5. Foster facility and expertise in the use of technology related to current and emerging 媒体. (IIa, IIc, IId)

Through the program’s capstone project, the Structured Field Experience (SFE), develop skills in self-directed research, creative 媒体 making, and/or professional domains involving 媒体 (IIa, IIc, IId, IIe, IIIc, IVa, IVc).