12 courses with the subject MDA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MDA 107Introduction to Digital Media Literacy
This course teaches students new skills to navigate today’s new media environment. By leveraging digital media tools students increase their ability to interpret, critically challenge, communicate and retain key concepts within their disciplines. The goal of the course is to empower students to control the context, conte
After an introduction to the film medium, students examine the relationship between American film and popular culture from 1940 to the present. For each decade, students examine representative films, historical events, and popular culture trends to discover how films and American popular
American Cinema explores Hollywood film as art form, industry, and system of representation and communication. In one sense, American Cinema is a language course -- the language of film. The course will explain how Hollywood films work technically, artistically, and culturally to reinforce and
This course introduces students to vital constructive video making practices that are relevant to 21st century learning skills and the contemporary workplace. This fulfills a course require
This course examines world cinema from a perspective of national identity, post-colonialism, cultural imperialism, diaspora, political and cultural displacement. Students are encouraged to reconsider what cinema is and how new ideas, feelings, and worlds come into being outside the do
This course will expose students to various modes of fictional, documentary, and professional storytelling across a variety of media platforms. Students will create original scripted content while learning about different formats, including film, television, streaming media and cutting edge digital forms of broadcasting.
This course is designed to help students apply critical thinking skills to news. Students learn principles of journalism and how to analyze print and visual stories. The course addresses news values, objectivity, bias, and sourcing. Students identify characteristics of mis/disinformation. Analyz
MDA 211TV Production: Streaming Technology, Podcasts & Field Production
This course introduces students to televisual and streaming video production techniques in the contemporary audio-visual field. Students will learn the fundamentals of live streaming, recording, and encoding processes essential for today’s digital landscape. Students engage with techni