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MSCR
62 courses with the subject MSCR, 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.
MSCR 1000Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern1
Intended for freshmen media and screen studies majors and combined majors. Introduces students to the liberal arts in general. Offers students an opportunity to become familiar with media and screen studies as a major discipline; to develop the academic skills necessary to succeed (analytical ability and critical thinking); to become grounded in the culture and values of the university community (including advising); and to develop interpersonal skills—in short, to become familiar with all the skills needed to become a successful university student.
Examines the historical relationships between media, culture, and society with a focus on the role of media technologies as tools of communication. Emphasizes the broad social and cultural conditions that shape media and the ways in which people experience culture and understand meaning. Introduces the concept of mediation to analyze how different forms of communication have emerged in different historical moments. Critically examines past interactions between media and culture, and also examines the emergence of historically specific conceptions of audience, identity, content, industry, information, perception, and so forth.
Prerequisite(s): MSCR 1220 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or COMM 131M (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- Attribute(s): NUpath Interpreting Culture
Offers students an opportunity to learn foundational tools and techniques of new media production. Focuses on the cultural and expressive implications of using new media forms including hypertext, games, maps, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Students create a portfolio of projects to explore and refine the relationship of form and of content in new media. Topics include nonlinear storytelling, play and games, place-based storytelling, interactivity, and immersion.
Focuses on building an array of skills, tools, and techniques that are required to craft short and feature-length screenplays. Presents an overview of the process to create a story outline using basic screenplay structure, build dimensional characters, write unique and authentic dialogue, and drive thematic action within story. Offers students an opportunity to develop deeper insight about screenwriting by examining media content, screenplays, and other relevant documentation. Culminates in writing and presenting original scenes.
Prerequisite(s): ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or WRIT 201M with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C Attribute(s): NUpath Writing Intensive
Prerequisite(s): ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or WRIT 201M with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C Attribute(s): NUpath Ethical Reasoning, NUpath Writing Intensive
Features an array of screenwriting tools and techniques used in the process of developing ideas into screenplays for feature films. Offers instruction in writing highly effective scenes; building compelling and dimensional characters; crafting authentic dialogue; and a variety of methods to add texture, depth, and meaning to a story. Students develop an outline for a feature film that they refine through ongoing in-class workshops based on informed and supportive collaboration. The cumulative nature of the course encourages students to learn, practice, and demonstrate a wide range of foundational skills they can continue to build upon to finish their feature film screenplay and apply to any future screenplay ideas.
Prerequisite(s): ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or WRIT 201M with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C Attribute(s): NUpath Writing Intensive
Prerequisite(s): ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or WRIT 201M with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C Attribute(s): NUpath Writing Intensive
Offers students an opportunity to deconstruct existing fiction films and scripted television/web examples and, in their own pieces, study dramatic structure and implement tone across all technical departments. Students practice the director’s role in communicating vision through casting; scene study; mise-en-scène; and postproduction including picture editing, sound design, musical score, graphics, and color correction.
Prerequisite(s): ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or WRIT 201M with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C Attribute(s): NUpath Interpreting Culture, NUpath Writing Intensive
Prerequisite(s): ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or WRIT 201M with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Writing Intensive
MSCR 3973Special Topics in Media and Screen Studies4
Addresses issues in communication and media as well as developments in the production of television and video. Course content may vary from year to year. Students who do not meet course prerequisites may seek permission of instructor. May be repeated up to four times.
Prerequisite(s): ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or WRIT 201M with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C Attribute(s): NUpath Writing Intensive
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1220 with a minimum grade of D- or MSCR 1220 with a minimum grade of D- or COMM 131M with a minimum grade of D- Attribute(s): NUpath Capstone Experience
Focuses on in-depth project in which a student conducts research or produces a product related to the student’s major field. Combined with Junior/Senior Project 2 or college-defined equivalent for 8 credit honors project. May be repeated without limit.
Offers independent work under the direction of members of the department on a chosen topic. Course content depends on instructor. May be repeated without limit.
Introduces the practice of media making for graduate students with little to no experience producing media. Covers the foundational language of images, movement, editing, and sound by creating work in stand-alone media such as short fiction and documentary, serial (multipart) media, and sound editing for podcasting. Examines the theories of power and representation that are integral to media making. No previous experience with media production is necessary.
Raises critical questions about how society and culture interact with data, acknowledging that data is at the core of our culture and social organization. Emphasizes how data is produced, circulated, and used in different ways, taking an interdisciplinary approach rooted in media studies critiques of technology and power. Case studies discuss what it means to locate the making and using of data within social relations of power, that is, to critically analyze data.
Presents key empirical and conceptual foundations to provide tools to address the complex challenges that digital technologies pose in a global context of social relations of power. Emphasizes the origins of the contemporary internet in imperial and military history and explores alternative possibilities that never came to be realized. A series of case studies, drawn primarily from the Global South, analyze power dynamics to highlight the pressing ethical and political questions raised by cutting-edge technologies.
Considers via an interdisciplinary approach how the development and use of digital technology by different political actors shapes and transforms democratic societies. Uses case studies to emphasize debates about the type and quality of information in democracies, as well as concerns about polarization and a general fraying of social cohesion.
Investigates how individual and collective beliefs about what it means to be a human of a particular race, ethnicity, or caste is reflected in contemporary and emergent technologies. From biometric scanners at the airport to social media interfaces, the tech tools people use every day are shaped by the sociocultural constructs of race and racial hierarchies, with an array of consequences. Grounded in the theories of communication and media studies, it is an expansive interdisciplinary investigation of how our understanding of who we are shapes what we create and how what we create, re-creates us. 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