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CERTIFICATE WITH CONCENTRATION IN FRENCH AND MEDIA / ARTS / CULTURAL PRODUCTION

Advisors

Kelley Conway, Communication Arts
Jo Ellen Fair, Journalism and Mass Communications, Global Studies
Michelle Nelson, Journalism and Mass Communications
Ronnie Hess, International Institute

The following are selected courses that may fulfill media/arts/cultural production requirements. Please see timetable and instructor for availibility. (You may also count any other UW-Madison course, at or above 300, pending program approval.)

Anthropology: Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Art History: General Courses
Business: Management and Human Resources
Communication Arts: Telecommunications and Film
Journalism and Mass Communications


Anthropology-Socio-Cultural Anthropology

902 Cultural Productions (cross-listed with Folklore 902):
Public culture including state sponsored rituals, monuments, museums, theme parks, restaurants, shopping malls, television, film and other means through which the citizens of the modern state come to know themselves and their culture.

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Art History-General Courses

601 Introduction to Museum Studies I
History of museums and collecting; introduction to connoisseurship; studies and practices in art museum activities; experience in exhibition planning, research, cataloging, and installation.

602 Introduction to Museum Studies II
Continuation of 601.

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Business-Management and Human Resources

773 Seminar-Arts Administration:
Examination and applied analysis of selected topics in administration of both visual and performing arts organizations; marketing and audience development, contracts and legal problems, fund development, program planning and evaluation, facilities management, business and government relations.

774 Seminar-Arts Administration:
Continuation of MHR 773

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Communication Arts-Telecommunications and Film

455 French Film (cross-listed with French 455):
Important French filmmakers, 1895 to the present; their relation to French cultural and social history of the period.

458 Global Media Cultures:
Analysis of media systems, practices and uses from a global perspective.

750 Theories of Mass Media:
A survey, analysis, and criticism of theoretical approaches to broadcasting; structure, organization, communicators, processes, content, audiences, and effects.

942 Seminar in Comparative and International Systems of Broadcasting

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Journalism and Mass Communications

205 News-Writing and Reporting:
Practice in gathering and writing various types of news.

303 Foreign Reporting/Editing:
Reporting, researching Foreign news and news features.

620 International Communication:
Historical, political, economic and cultural trends in global mass communication systems.

622 Topics in International Communication:
Study and investigation in depth of selected problems and topics in international communication and foreign media systems.

930 Seminar-International/Development Communication:
Research on global media issues. Possible topics include news flow, cultural imperialism, representations, history and political economy, globalization trends, new technologies, mass media and nation building, communication and grassroots politics.

939 Seminar-Critical and Cultural Studies of Mass Communication:
Research in critical studies and/or cultural studies. Topics may include political economy of mass media, theories of representation, critical news analysis and critique, cultural politics and mass media, critical approaches to mass media, race and gender.

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