/Institutions/Messiah-College/json/2023-2024/Undergraduate-Catalog-local.json
/Institutions/Messiah-College/json/2023-2024/Undergraduate-Catalog.json
Film and Media Arts (B.A.)
Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates from Messiah’s Film and Media Arts program can:
- Demonstrate competency in aural, visual, and written storytelling skills.
- Demonstrate achievement of professional, entry-level competence in film production, including significant technical mastery, ability to produce work that communicates coherent artistic/intellectual goals, and solve professional problems independently and interdependently.
- Identify the histories, critical theories, research methods, and cultural contexts of film.
- Explain how various media platforms work, how they produce meanings, how they are organized, and how to use them wisely and effectively.
- Explain how to form and maintain healthy relationships with diverse others.
- Construct discourse intended to inform, persuade, and entertain.
- Articulate ethical communication principles and practices.
- Explain research methods in communication.
- Communicate effectively, ethically, and appropriately through writing, interaction, and speaking in public, interpersonal, and group contexts.
- Display proficiency in one area of communication sufficient to pursue a career and/or continue education at the graduate level.
- Articulate an awareness of options for employment in a communication-related field.
- Articulate how faith connects to the discipline and students’ area of specialization in Communication.
Major Requirements
Complete the following for your major:
COMM 341 and 359: Writing in the major requirement.
INTE 391 and INTE 394 must be taken for a letter grade to fulfill major requirements. A minimum of 3 internship credits and a maximum of 6 internship credits counts towards major requirements.
Three credits from the following media courses:
Three credits from the following:
Three credits from the following interpersonal communication courses:
Nine credits from the following; at least one 300-400 level, at least two in COMM:
ART 352, ART 431: This course requires additional prerequisites, increasing the major credit total.
QuEST Requirements
Experiential Learning requirement |
met/major |
QuEST requirements |
Credits |
First Year Seminar |
3 |
Oral Communication (COMM 105) |
met/major |
Created and Called for Community (W) |
3 |
Mathematical Sciences |
3 or 4 |
Laboratory Science |
3 or 4 |
Science, Technology & the World |
3 |
Two of the following (6 credits total):
Social Science
European History
United States History |
6 |
Literature |
3 |
Philosophy and Religion |
3 |
Arts |
3 |
First Semester of Language |
3 |
Second Semester of Language |
3 |
Third Semester of Language or Cross Cultural |
3 |
Non-Western Studies |
2 or 3 |
Bible |
3 |
Christian Beliefs |
3 |
Wellness course |
1 |
Ethics, World Views or Pluralism |
3 |
QuEST requirements |
51-54 |
Major requirements |
58-61 |
Free electives |
14-8 |
Total credits |
123 |