Introduction to contemporary entertainment media from a media studies and media literacy perspective. The historical, economic, social, cultural, legal, and ideological contexts of contemporary entertainment media, with an emphasis on television, film, gaming, and other emergent media.

Introduction to contemporary entertainment media from a media studies and media literacy perspective. The historical, economic, social, cultural, legal, and ideological contexts of contemporary entertainment media, with an emphasis on television, film, gaming, and other emergent media.

The George Foster Peabody Awards, hosted by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, gives annual awards for broadcasting excellence. This course uses content from the Peabody Archive to consider the medium of television: cultural history, social movements, genres, and an interrogation of what “excellence” means in this medium.

In this introductory screenwriting course, students learn narrative structure, writing, and storytelling for film, television, and digital-media entertainment. Students are required to write and workshop documents and short scripts both in groups and individually.

In this introductory screenwriting course, students learn narrative structure, writing, and storytelling for film, television, and digital-media entertainment. Students are required to write and workshop documents and short scripts both in groups and individually.

Introduces students to the history and structures of film, television, and digital-media entertainment industries.

Methods of storytelling in film, television, and digital-media entertainment that include structural elements pre-production, production, and postproduction. Emerging methods and concepts for visual storytelling.

Strategies of critical analysis of film, television, and digital-media entertainment as artistic, scholarly, and professional practice. Students will learn the language of visual analysis and components of media aesthetics as they apply to a variety of entertainment media and will discuss visual media literacy, meaning, and interpretation as analytical viewing practices.

An introduction to the international film business with a primary focus on marketing campaigns and distribution strategies, taking into account the social, political, and economic climates of various territories worldwide. International production finance will also be discussed.

Provides an in-depth look at business practices and trends in the contemporary film, television, and digital-media entertainment industries. Guest speakers supplement the curriculum. This class is taught in Los Angeles.

Provides students an experiential learning opportunity by participating in the film production as a crew member. Students and WWII Foundation’s production team will visit important landmarks in WWII history to shoot a documentary film. Also, all participants will complete their own short documentary after the trip.

An intensive screenwriting course for film entertainment. Students utilize the fundamentals of dramatic criteria learned in Writing for Entertainment Media to develop and pitch an original feature film screenplay. Students are required to write a screenplay or equivalent media product.