Media Production Minor

Whether you’re a journalist or a geologist, all fields and industries are increasingly relying on image and sound to communicate their ideas and information. A Media Production minor offers students an opportunity to supplement their chosen major with dynamic digital literacy skills. Developing a fluency with digital media will identify them as fiercely relevant and forward-looking in any industry.

Media Production minors learn to use a broad range of digital production and post-production tools in service of their storytelling, develop a working understanding of media industries and how how to operate ethically within them, and undertake a hands-on on-campus media internship. This foundation is then supplemented with 2-3 individualized, interdisciplinary upper-division media production electives.

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Saint Mary’s Media Production Program offers students a multitude of pathways to pursue their passion in digital media storytelling, and prepares them for careers in increasingly media-focused job environments.

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Curriculum

Program Degree Requirements

The minor in Media Production is for students who wish to study and practice the craft of creating digital audiovisual and multimedia works.

Requirements

Foundation

The following classes are required for all Media Production minors.
Media Production Tools and Techniques (3 units)
Media Ethics and Ecologies (3 units)
Campus Media Internship (1 units)
Portfolio I (1 units)

Elective Production

All MP minors must take eight units from this list of electives, six of which must be upper division.
Basic Design (4 units)
Digital Photography (4 units)
Sequential Art (1 units)
Digital Foundations (4 units)
Designing for the Web (4 units)
3D Animation (4 units)
Experimental Photography (4 units)
Advanced Design (4 units)
Experimental Film/Video (4 units)
Interdisciplinary Arts (4 units)
Special Topics in Art (4 units)
Photojournalism (4 units)
Media Labs in Radio, Journalism or Other (1 units)
Coding is Fun (3 units)
Data Visualization and Storytelling (3 units)
Digital Marketing (4 units)
Online Content Creation (4 units)
Independent Production (1-4 units)
Video Production (4 units)
Audio Production (4 units)
Special Topics in Media Production (4 units)
Media Lab in Radio (1 units)
Community Media (3 units)
Community Media EL (1 units)
Fiction Filmmaking (4 units)
Sports Media (4 units)
Gael Media (1 units)
Portfolio II (1 units)
Independent Production (1-4 units)

Studies and Analysis

All MP minors must take four units from this list of electives.
Film as Art (4 units)
History of Media Art (4 units)
Film Theory and Criticism (4 units)
Anthropology of Digital Cultures (4 units)
Visual Anthropology (4 units)
Art, Technology, and Visual Culture (4 units)
Introduction to Media & Cultural Studies (4 units)
Understanding Digital Culture (3 units)
Visual Communication (4 units)
Advertising and Civic Engagement (4 units)
Public Relations (4 units)
Communication Policy and Law (4 units)
Media, Technologies, & Culture (4 units)
Media Research Methods (4 units)
Topics in Communication/300-Level (3-4 units)
International Communication (4 units)
Political Communication (4 units)
Topics in Film (4 units)
Communication & Social Justice (4 units)
Topics in Communication/400-Level (3-4 units)
Television and Cultural Criticism (4 units)
Tech Ethics (3 units)
Dance and Film (3 units)
Film (4 units)
Topics in Film (4 units)
Korean Cinema (4 units)
Hitchcock (4 units)
Indie Film: Diverse Voices in American Cinema (4 units)
Film Theory (4 units)
Philosophy Goes to the Movies (3 units)
Politics and the Media (3 units)
Sociology of Film (4 units)
Theology & Religion in/and/of Film (3 units)
Note:
will count as a Media Production Studies and Analysis Elective when the Special Topic is Visual Sociology. (1-4 units)
Other courses not on this list may be accepted if the content relates to media studies or analysis. Please contact the Media Production program director to confirm.