Media and Screen Studies and English, BA (Boston

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BA Language Requirements

12 semester hours.

From the catalog
All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

Common Requirements

MSCR 1220 — Media, Culture, and Society
MSCR 2220 — Understanding Media

Cluster Courses

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Critical Analysis
Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

Choose 4 semester hours from:
- MSCR 1420 — Media History
- MSCR 2300 — Television: Text and Context
- MSCR 2895 — Film Analysis
From the catalog
Media Production
Complete 4 semester hours from the following:
Choose 4 semester hours from:
- MSCR 1230 — Introduction to Film Production
- MSCR 2391 — Introduction to Screenwriting
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Media Cultures
Complete 4 semester hours from the following:
Choose 4 semester hours from:
- MSCR 2325 — Global Media
- MSCR 2335 — Race and Social Justice in American Film
- MSCR 3392 — Gender and Film
- MSCR 3437 — Media and Identity

Writing Intensive Seminar

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Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

Choose 4 semester hours from:
- MSCR 2600 — Cloud, Closet, (Drop)Box
- MSCR 3330 — Documentary Film Ethics
- MSCR 3420 — Digital Media Culture
- MSCR 3422 — Media Audiences
- MSCR 3600 — Film Theory
- MSCR 3700 — Queer Media

Media and Screen Studies Electives

From the catalog
Complete 12 semester hours from the following:
Media and Screen Studies courses from the range MSCR 1200 - MSCR 4999, which have not been used to satisfy other degree requirements.

Choose 12 semester hours from:
- All of:
  - ARTD 2360 — Introduction to Photography
  - ARTD 2361 — Photo Tools
- ARTD 3480 — Video: Sound and Image
- ARTD 3485 — Experimental Video
- COMM 3307 — Production Practicum Abroad

Foundational Courses

One of:
- ENGL 1160 — Introduction to Rhetoric
- ENGL 1410 — Introduction to Research on Writing
ENGL 1400 — Introduction to Literary Studies
One of:
- ENGL 1700 — Global Literatures 1
- ENGL 1701 — Global Literatures 2

Diversity

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Complete one of the following (you may reuse this course to fulfill an additional English requirement below):

One of:
- ENGL 2296 — Early African-American Literature
- ENGL 2450 — Postcolonial Literature
- ENGL 2455 — American Women Writers
- ENGL 2470 — Asian-American Literature
- ENGL 2760 — Writing in Global Contexts
- ENGL 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity

Literary Periods

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Pre-1850
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ENGL 1600 — Introduction to Shakespeare
- ENGL 2296 — Early African-American Literature
- ENGL 3101 — Early Literatures
- ENGL 3120 — 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures
- ENGL 3160 — Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures
- One of:
  - ENGL 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
  - JWSS 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
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Post-1850
Complete one of the following:
One of:
- ENGL 2301 — The Graphic Novel
- ENGL 2450 — Postcolonial Literature
- ENGL 2451 — Postcolonial Women Writers
- ENGL 2455 — American Women Writers
- ENGL 2470 — Asian-American Literature
- ENGL 2600 — Irish Literary Culture
- ENGL 3161 — 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures

Theories and Methods

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Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ENGL 1160 — Introduction to Rhetoric
- ENGL 1410 — Introduction to Research on Writing
- ENGL 1450 — Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
- ENGL 2520 — Science Fiction
- ENGL 2620 — What Is Nature?
- ENGL 3325 — Rhetoric of Law
- ENGL 3381 — The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
- ENGL 3400 — Opening the Archive
- ENGL 3487 — Film and Text
- ENGL 3700 — Narrative Medicine
- LING 1150 — Introduction to Linguistics
- LING 2350 — Linguistic Analysis
- LING 3450 — Syntax
- LING 3452 — Semantics
- LING 3454 — History of English
- LING 3456 — Language and Gender

Major Seminar

ENGL 3710 — Major Seminar

Writing

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ENGL 2700 — Creative Writing
- ENGL 2710 — Style and Editing
- ENGL 2760 — Writing in Global Contexts
- ENGL 2770 — Writing to Heal
- ENGL 3375 — Writing Boston
- ENGL 3376 — Creative Nonfiction
- ENGL 3377 — Poetry Workshop
- ENGL 3378 — Fiction Workshop
- ENGL 3380 — Writing Seminar

English Electives

8 semester hours.

From the catalog
Complete any two ENGL courses that have not already been used to fulfill another requirement.

Integrative Requirement Courses

From the catalog
Complete 8 semester hours from the following:

One of:
- ENGL 1450 — Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
- ENGL 3340 — Technologies of Text
One of:
- MSCR 2336 — American Film and Culture
- MSCR 2330 — Film Genres

Capstone Experience Course

From the catalog
Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

Choose 4 semester hours from:
- ENGL 4710 — Capstone Seminar
- MSCR 4623 — Media and Screen Studies Capstone

Introduction to College

One of:
- ENGL 1000 — English at Northeastern
- MSCR 1000 — Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern

Experiential Learning

One of:
- EEAM 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op
- EESH 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op

Writing Requirements

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First-Year Writing

One of:
- ENGW 1111 — First-Year Writing
- ENGW 1102 — First-Year Writing for Multilingual Writers
- ENGW 1114 — First-Year Writing with Service-Learning
From the catalog
Advanced Writing in the Disciplines
One of:
- ENGW 3314 — Advanced Writing in the Arts, Media, and Design
- ENGW 3309 — Advanced Writing in the Humanities
- ENGW 3315 — Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

Substitutions

Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

EEAM 2000 ↔ EESH 2000 (tier B)
ENGW 1102 ↔ ENGW 1111 (tier C)
ENGW 1102 ↔ ENGW 1114 (tier C)
ENGW 1111 ↔ ENGW 1114 (tier C)

What the tiers mean

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