Source (2025): https://calstatela.curriculog.com/proposal:17314/form

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

1. Know the major theoretical concepts and methodological tools for examining the production, reception, and construction of TV, film, and media texts

2. Describe and analyze different formats, periods, and traditions of audio-visual screen media as distinct forms of meaning-making

3. Devise and execute original argument-driven, evidence-based research into TV, film, and media

4. Identify and apply appropriate theoretical models and methodological strategies in the construction of inquiry into TV, film, and media

5. Read and interpret contemporary research in TV, film, and media studies

6. Apply ethical standards of citation and references to support argumentative writing on TV, film, and media studies

7. Understand the complex and powerful relationships between audio-visual screen media and their historical and cultural contexts

8. Analyze the entanglements of audio-visual media with the maintenance of individual identity and the processes of social reproduction

9. Communicate to others the significance and importance of audio-visual screen media as a form of cultural expression in personal and public life

Fit with the Institutional Mission or Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO) 

KNOWLEDGE

Students will have a broad exposure to critical models, combining theoretical concepts and methodological techniques, to be employed in the examination of TV, film, and related media forms. And, through their coursework, students also will have the opportunity to assess how audio-visual screen media has operated as vital outlets for the expression, edification, and critique in a variety of sociocultural, technical, and historical moments. Understanding these formal principles and appreciating the richness of meaning-making found in screen media, students have the tools to pursue contemporary and historical research questions examining the place of TV, film, and media studies in the larger human experience.

PROFICIENCY

Students will use and engage with classical and contemporary theories of media analysis and, additionally, they will learn and apply strict standards of evidence collection and analysis, allowing them to produce original, informed, and verifiable academic writing in conversation with the larger discipline of TV, film, and media studies. Through their coursework and assignments, students will develop and refine strategies for identifying vital topics for research, isolating the most compelling forms of evidence, building strong thesis statements grounded in theoretical concepts, and abiding by the strict ethical standards of scholastic research.

PLACE AND COMMUNITY

Students will reflect on and respond to research that questions and examines the relationship between screen media and the context of its creation in both their courses and their coursework. This approach will allow students to draw the important connections between our local culture and local industry, deeply intertwined with the history of professional media production, and our shared media culture.

TRANSFORMATION

Through research and writing, students will be encouraged to become involved, through their private and public lives, in the celebration and appreciation of screen media as a form of human expression and the interrogation and critique of its often powerful role in our lives, our communities, and our shared societies.