California State University, Los Angeles

Program Information

Degree Offered

M.A.

Program Description:

The M.A. degree in Telecommunications and Film option is designed to enable students to acquire an understanding of research methods and critical approaches that explore media history, industry strategies and structure, and audience reception, as well as visual and structural elements of media texts. The program requires that students develop an area of specialization and select either comprehensive exams or a thesis project as their culminating experience.

Some examples of courses within this degree program are:

Research Methods in Telecommunications and Film
Critical Approaches to Television and Film
Television Studies
Post World War II Film/TV History
Narrative Studies in Film/TV
Cultural Studies
Theories of Mass Media
Students applying to the Telecommunications and Film option and whose undergraduate major was not Television, Film and Media studies may be admitted to this degree program in conditionally classified standing. Prior to beginning graduate coursework, conditionally classified students must achieve a minimum B grade in every course of a conditional study plan of up to 30 units of undergraduate work designed and approved by the Television, Film and Media studies graduate advisor.

Accreditation:

Not Applicable

Eligibility Requirements:

In applying to the Graduate Program in Communication Studies (including Critical Studies in Television & Film) please remember that you must complete the university application procedures; domestic, international. Our department requires that you send an additional copy to us, but the university makes the initial evaluations regarding your acceptance to the university—so they need to have a complete file in order to make that determination. The department is then given the opportunity to evaluate your application to an individual program. Please remember: One copy of the required documents to the university, and another copy to the department as required. Attention to this detail will quicken the university-based decision on you application, thereby allowing the department to proceed with its determination.

Tuition & Financial Aid

Financial Aid Offered: Yes

Format: Campus

Classification: Master's Colleges & Universities I

Institution Sector: Public

Locale: Large City

Size & Settings: 20,000 and above