Students develop fluency in media criticism, media history and media ethics in order to describe and analyze the major historical movements (events, artists, genres, developments, etc.) and their interrelationships.  Students learn to understand media contextually, in relationship to social movements and technological developments so that they can describe and analyze relationships between aesthetics and content.  Students apply ethical, social and political analysis in critique.

Required Courses

  • TAT 228: Cinematic History 1849-1960 (4 units)
  • TAT 300: Major ProSeminar (4 units)
  • TAT 329: Contemporary Media History (4 units)