Curriculum in Media Studies

To complete the program, students take 15 core COMM hours from the list of required core classes and 15-29 elective courses within the College of Communications (COMM, ADV or JOUR courses). Further, the students are required to have one or two specializations OUTSIDE the College of at least 18 hours. This specialization counts towards the College requirement of 20 hours of general advanced courses. Overall, media studies students complete a total of 124 semester hours of course credit to graduate from the University of Illinois.

CORE:
COMM 317: History of Communication
COMM 320: Media and Popular Culture OR COMM 321: Film Culture
COMM 331: Media and Democracy OR COMM 310: Media Ethics
COMM 351: Social Aspects of Media
COMM 364: Economic Structure of Communication

ELECTIVES:Communications elective courses include those with the rubrics ADV, COMM and JOUR. Any course with one of these single rubrics or with a cross listed rubric only within the College (i.e. COMM/JOUR 217; COMM/JOUR 218; COMM/JOUR 220; COMM/JOUR 231; COMM/JOUR 241) is considered a College of Communications course and counts only in the College with the following exception: COMM 101 and COMM 166 are considered general electives and not counted toward the required minimum of 30 hours of Communications College courses.

All other ADV, COMM or JOUR courses which are cross listed with departments outside the college count as College of Communications courses within the media studies curriculum. In some cases, if a student wishes to have such a course count as outside the college, the student should contact the Associate Dean of Students in the College of Communications Office to make a formal request.