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 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 a global, mass-mediated culture.
Concentration in MCM
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, and must be approved by an MCM concentration advisor as part of a coherent program of study.
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.
Undergraduate Advisors
Any MCM faculty member can be your advisor and sign your concentration forms - Wendy Chun, Anthony Cokes, Lynne Joyrich, Ellen Rooney, Philip Rosen, Leslie Thornton. If you are revising your forms using the paper version, any faculty memeber can sign, but the Director of Undergraduate studies has the final approval. Please submit signed concentration forms to Liza Hebert, MCM Room 104 and she will get get the DUS approval and submit to the Registrar.
Please Note: Students who have already declared a concentration using the paper form must revise that concentration and add additional concentrations by using the paper form. Paper Concentration forms
If you have not already declared a concentration using this form, please use the online declaration form via the 'Concentrations' tab.