Degree Requirements - 126 credits
Students can earn a Bachelor of Arts degree or a Bachelor of Science degree with this major
Media and Film Major Requirements: 12 courses, 48 credits
Core Requirements (11 courses, 44 credits)
Note: All students should take CJN-101 and CJN-152 during their first year.
Students in the Honors Program have the option of completing the Honors version of a course.
Elective (1 course, 4 credits)
Choose one of the following:
Note: CJN-505 must be taken for a minimum of 4 credits to count as a major elective.
Residency Requirement Policy: In the College of Arts and Sciences, a two-course (8 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for completion of a minor and a four-course (16 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for the completion of a major.
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Concentration
Production Concentration (Optional): 4 courses, 16 credits
Choose four of the following:
| CJN-280 | Producing for Documentary Film | 4 |
| CJN-303 | Current Issues in Documentary | 4 |
| CJN-H303 | Honors Current Issues in Documentary | 4 |
| CJN-357 | Advanced Editing Skills | 4 |
| CJN-390 | Screenwriting | 4 |
| CJN-480 | Investigative Journalism and Documentary | 4 |
| CJN-481 | Making the Short Film | 4 |
Students in the Honors Program have the option of completing the Honors version of a course.
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Media and Film Major Learning Goals and Objectives
Learning goals and objectives reflect the educational outcomes achieved by students through the completion of this program. These transferable skills prepare Suffolk students for success in the workplace, in graduate school, and in their local and global communities.
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Learning Goals
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Learning Objectives
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Students will...
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Students will be able to...
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Understand the media's potential contribution to democratic societies and to the development of informed citizens |
- Acquire media literacy skills
- Apply appropriate concepts to evaluate and critique media content
- Explain whether mediated communication provides the information necessary for understanding significant social and political issues
- Examine how producers of mediated communication can engage in meaning-making practices that help establish and sustain those that reinforce existing power structures |
| Understand the principles of documentary production, with an emphasis on advancing social justice |
- Develop story ideas
- Conduct topic and archival research
- Pitch documentary projects
- Create documentary proposals with a nuanced understanding of nonfiction storytelling
- Assess complex ethical issues in documentary production
- Direct verité scenes
- Interview people
- Edit documentary projects
- Navigate the documentary industry |
| Understand academic research in media and film |
- Develop research skills and assess academic research
- Arrive at a research question
- Select appropriate research methods
- Collect data and/or evidence
- Discuss research results
- Write intellectually grounded essays and research papers |
| Understand storytelling |
- Analyze narrative structure and incorporate it into their own work
- Assess how stylistic elements interact with narrative storytelling
- Develop characters, relationships, growth, dramatic questions, conflict, and story stakes
- Pitch fiction and non-fiction stories
- Write scripts and screenplays
- Evaluate the effect of the story on the audience |
Gain a nuanced understanding of media production
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- Analyze media, including films, TV shows, news, and online content
- Execute all three steps of video production (pre-production, production, post production)
- Operate camera, audio and lighting equipment
- Develop editing skills such as sequence editing, sound design, and color grading
- Peer review fellow students’ work |
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Honors
Honors in the Major is a highly selective opportunity to complete a signature original project or thesis with the close personalized mentorship of a departmental faculty member beginning in the junior year. Students have the opportunity to complete a junior level interdisciplinary course addressing real-world problems. In the senior year, students present research or creative works completed in their discipline at the Honors in the Major Symposium. There is special recognition at Commencement and on the Suffolk transcript.
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Accelerated Bachelor's/Master's in Communication
Degree Requirements
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Students admitted to this dual degree program must meet all the requirements of an undergraduate major offered by the department of Advertising, Public Relations, & Social Media or the department of Communication, Journalism, & Media.
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Students must also meet all requirements for the Master’s degree in Communication offered by the department of Advertising, Public Relations, & Social Media.
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Students will take two Communication graduate courses during their senior year; one during the fall semester and one during the spring semester. The two graduate courses taken during the senior year will count toward BOTH the undergraduate and graduate degree requirements. Credit hours will be awarded based on the graduate course description.
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The graduate courses taken during the senior year will be determined by the Communication graduate program director.
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Students are subject to the usual standards for academic standing, i.e., undergraduate standards for undergraduate courses and graduate standards for graduate courses.
Upon successful completion of all of the degree requirements, a student will receive a dual Bachelor’s and Master’s degree. The exact degree will be awarded based on the specific undergraduate program the student completes. A student may permanently exit the dual degree program and opt to graduate with a Bachelor’s degree if all the requirements for a Bachelor’s degree have been met. In this case, the graduate courses taken in the senior year will be counted as 4-credit courses applied toward the undergraduate degree requirements.
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