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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Media Studies (BA) Sample Plan


YEAR ONE

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II                                                                3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 Expanded Literacies (3/6)  3
CM - 130 Introduction to Mass Communication                                                   
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies:Social Analysis - 2/6)
3 CM - 199 Communication Theory   3
TV - 160 TV/Film History and Appreciation   3 TV - 225 Basic Studio Production   3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

YEAR TWO

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3
CS - 119 Digital Art Story Development   3 Expanded Literacies (5/6) 3
CS - 390 3D Modeling for Production   3 CS - 340 Digital Art I   3
Media Studies Elective Group A OR B 3 TV - 290 Media Literacy   3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 16

YEAR THREE

Fall Spring
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3) 3 Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3) 3
Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3
CM - 290 Pop Culture   3 Media Studies Elective Group A OR B 3
CS - 270 Multimedia  or Free Elective 3 Media Studies Elective Group A OR B 3
Media Studies Elective Group A OR B 3 CS - 270 Multimedia  or Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

YEAR FOUR

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3
Media Studies Elective Group A OR B 3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 CM - 405 Communication Research Seminar   4
Free Elective 3 Free Elective (Internship Recommended) 3
Free Elective 3    
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 13

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

Two Controlled Electives from Group A - Theory and Criticism: CM 220 , CM 210 ,CM 310 ; HCM 230 CS 342 , CS 392 .

Three Controlled Electives from Group B - Application: CM 313 , CM 316 , CM 320 ; HCM 290 ; TV 230 , TV 320 , TV 370 ; TV 395 CS 265 , CS 425 .

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program .