MCM Undergraduate Program

Introduction MCM-Track I MCM-Track II
MCM-German MCM-Italian Semiotics-French

Undergraduate Advisors: (any MCM faculty member can be your advisor and sign your concentration forms and then forms must be approved by the DUS) Wendy Chun, Anthony Cokes, Mary Ann Doane, Lynne Joyrich, Ellen Rooney, Philip Rosen, Michael Silverman, Leslie Thornton, Mark Tribe

Introduction

The Modern Culture and Media concentration combines the study of contemporary theories of representation and cultural production with the analysis of diverse texts – visual and verbal, literary and historical, archival and imaginative – in the period broadly designated as “modern” (18th to 21st centuries). Since the appearance of modern means of textual production and reproduction (print, film, video, sound recording, digital practices, etc.), traditional artistic and literary forms have changed significantly and new forms have been developed. MCM pursues teaching and research premised on the centrality of these changes to the analysis of modern culture. We may study the modern media or on the canonical texts of the humanities, but we examine all texts as elements in cultural systems that influence and organize textual production and reception at any moment in history. Our work always aims at better understanding ourselves as participants in and products of an international, mass-mediated culture.

MCM supports two main undergraduate concentrations, Track I and Track II.

Track I consists of 11 MCM courses. Courses from other departments may count toward the fulfillment of a focus area, but they cannot substitute for the 11 required MCM courses.

Track II concentration consists of 11 courses distributed as follows: two core courses, two additional courses below the 1000-level, three 1000-level courses, four production courses, and one senior seminar. Students are expected to meet regularly with their concentration advisors; they are required to meet at the beginning of their seventh semester to review their concentrations.

mcm dug

The DUG (Deparment Undergraduate Group) mcm concentrators meeting together every once in awhile in order to plan fun and exciting events that build community among concentrators. They do installations and film shows with receptions. Come to a meeting and give your input. Email Zachary McCune or Patrick Nagle or David Paesani for more information.