 
This pathway brings together a focused depth of study in the craft and aesthetics of artistic practice in Media Art, New Media, and Performance with a focus on the critical interventions the arts, storytelling, performance and media making have on society. Courses in this pathway facilitate intellectual exchange and create community across artistic practices and with other forms of research and inquiry in the major. It centers this work as fundamental to the department’s conceptualization of communication as engagement, creativity, and critique.
Pathway Starting Point Courses
COMM 130 Introduction to Media Production (3 credits)
COMM 140 Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism (3 credits)
COMM 150 Introduction to New Media (3 credits)
COMM 160 Introduction to Performance Studies (3 credits)
COMM 224 Introduction to Gender and Communication (3 credits)
COMM 260 Introduction to Performance and Social Change (3 credits)
COMM 263 Performing Literature (3 credits)
COMM 330 Introduction to Writing for Film and Television (3 credits)
Lower-Level Courses
COMM 61 First-Year Seminar: The Politics of Performance (3 credits)
COMM 62 First-Year Seminar: African American Literature and Performance (3 credits)
COMM 63 10 First-Year Seminar: The Creative Process in Performance (3 credits)
COMM 84 First-Year Seminar: Make A Zine! Do-It-Yourself Writing, Publishing, and Distribution (3 credits)
COMM 88 First-Year Seminar: Technologies of Popular Culture (3 credits)
COMM 89 First-Year Seminar: Special Topics (3 credits)
COMM 142 iS Popular Music (3 credits)
COMM 230 Audio/Video/Film Production and Writing’
COMM 251 Introduction to American Film and Culture, 1965-Present (3 credits)
COMM 262 Introduction to the Performance of Culture (3 credits)
COMM 318 ( Cultural Diversity (3 credits)
COMM 331 Writing the Short Film (3 credits)
COMM 334 Writing the One-Hour TV Drama (3 credits)
COMM 335 18: Film Story Analysis (3 credits)
COMM 337 12 Visual Storytelling for Screenwriters (3 credits)
COMM/WGST 345 Gender and Film (3 credits)
COMM 350 Practices of Cultural Studies (3 credits)
COMM 378 Environmental Filmmaking: Creative Production and Social Impact (3 credits)
COMM 390 Special Topics in Communication Study (3 credits)
COMM 393 Internships (3 credits)
COMM 396 Independent Study and Directed Research (1-3 credits)
Upper-Level Courses
COMM 412 Critical Theory (3 credits)
COMM 430 History of American Screenwriting (3 credits)
COMM 431 Advanced Audio Production (3 credits)
COMM 432 Visual Culture (3 credits)
COMM 435 Memory Acts (3 credits)
COMM 437 United States Black Culture and Performance (3 credits)
COMM 450 Media and Popular Culture (3 credits)
COMM 455 Sound Studies (3 credits)
COMM 463 Creating the Solo Performance (3 credits)
COMM 464 Collaborative Performance (3 credits)
COMM 466 Advanced Study in Performing Literature (3 credits)
COMM 490 Special Topics in Communication Studies (3 credits)
COMM 500 Visual and Material Rhetoric (3 credits)
COMM 524 Gender, Communication, and Culture (3 credits)
COMM 534 Aesthetic and Technical Considerations in Making Short Videos (3 credits)
COMM 549 Sexuality and Visual Culture (3 credits)
COMM 561Performance of Women of Color (3 credits)
COMM 562Oral History and Performance (3 credits)
COMM 564 Performance and Popular Culture (3 credits)
COMM 568 Adapting and Directing for the Stage (3 credits)
LUMM STOMaking and Manipulating “Race” in the United States (3 credits)
COMM 596 Advanced Independent Study/Directed Reading (1-3 credits)
COMM 635 Documentary Production (3 credits)
COMM 636 Interactive Media (3 credits)
COMM 638 Game Design (3 credits)
COMM 640 Game Studio (3 credits)
COMM 644 Documentary Production: First Person Filmmaking (3 credits)
COMM 645 The Documentary Idea (3 credits)
COMM 646 Introduction to the Art and Mechanics of Two-Dimensional Digital Animation (3 credits)
COMM 647 Advanced Projects in Media Production (3 credits)
COMM 650 Cultural Politics of Global Media Economies (3 credits)
COMM 652 Media and Difference (3 credits)
COMM 653 Experimental Video (3 credits)
COMM 654 Motion Graphics, Special Effects, and Compositing (3 credits)
COMM 656 Sound for Film and Video: Theory and Practice for Motion Picture Sound Design (3 credits)
COMM 660 Advanced Projects in Performance Studies (3 credits)
COMM 661 Race and Ethnicity (3 credits)
COMM 662 Black/African Diaspora Performance (3 credits)
COMM 665 Performance, Politics, and Culture (3 credits)
COMM 666 Media in Performance (3 credits)
COMM 667 Performance Activism (3 credits)
COMM 676 Digital Media and Live Performance (3 credits)
COMM 681 Contemporary Film Theory (3 credits)
COMM 682 History of the Moving Image: Pasts, Presents, Futures (3 credits)
COMM 690 Advanced Topics in Communication Studies (3 credits)
COMM 693H Honors (3 credits)
COMM 694H Honors (3 credits)
COMM 695 Field Methods (3 credits)