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Interdisciplinary Programs

Bachelor of Arts in Narrative Studies

Narrative studies prepares students for the development and evaluation of original content for novels, films, theatre and other narrative platforms, but recognizes that the range of professional opportunities in literature and the performing arts is much wider than the roles of author, screenwriter or playwright. To recognize a good story, to critique, help shape, realize and transform it, requires a background in the history of narrative, cross-cultural and contemporary models, and an understanding of the broader context of popular culture.

Narrative Studies assumes that an effective narrative will be adapted from the medium in which it first appears as new media become available. To prepare students for a future in which the platform is likely to change, the Bachelor of Arts in Narrative Studies allows students to study across the current platforms while concentrating on the techniques of effective construction common to them all.

In so doing, it draws upon course work from several schools of art but finds its home in the humanities. To help develop the flexibility necessary to understand how stories change across platforms, students are expected to complete at least three courses in literary and three courses in performance-based media. The remaining three courses may be chosen to reflect the student's personal preference and initial career aspirations.

MDA 490 Directed Research is a capstone experience: Students work under the guidance of a faculty member in a relevant discipline or professional field, which may include full-time faculty from the college or the participating schools of the arts. Projects intended for the stage should be done under the direction of School of Theatre faculty.

Requirements			units
Nine or 10 courses totaling 36 units; no more than two at the 100- or 200-level, selected from the following lists.

Introduction to Narrative Media (choose one course)
COLT 101	Masterpieces and Masterminds: Literature and Thought of the West	4
CTCS 190	Introduction to Cinema	4
CTCS 191	Introduction to Television and Video	4
CTIN 309	Introduction to Interactive Entertainment	4
ENGL 261	English Literature to 1800	4
ENGL 262	English Literature Since 1800	4
ENGL 263	American Literature	4
ENGL 471	Literary Genres and Film	4
ENGL 481	Narrative Forms in Literature and Film	4
FA 150	Visual Culture and Literacy I	4
PHIL 446	Aesthetics and the Film	4
THTR 125	Text Studies for Production	4
THTR 303	The Performing Arts	4

Writing and Narrative Forms (choose one or two courses, totaling 4 units)
CTWR 412	Introduction to Screenwriting, and	2
CTWR 414	The Screenplay	2
ENGL 303	Introduction to Fiction Writing	4
ENGL 405*	Fiction Writing	4, max 8
THTR 365	Playwriting I	4
THTR 366*	Playwriting II	4

Popular Culture and Ethnicity (choose one course)
AMST 200	Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity	4
AMST 274	Exploring Ethnicity Through Film	4
AMST 285	African-American Popular Culture	4
ANTH 333	Forms of Folklore	4
COLT 365	Literature and Popular Culture	4
CTCS 192	Race, Class and Gender in American Film	4
CTCS 392	History of the American Film, 1925-1950	4
CTCS 393	History of the American Film, 1946-1975	4
CTCS 394	History of the American Film, 1977-Present	4
CTCS 407	African-American Cinema	4
CTCS 414	Chicana/o Cinema	4
ENGL 392	Visual and Popular Culture	4
HIST 380	American Popular Culture	4
MUSC 400	The Broadway Musical: Reflections of American Diversity, Issues and Experiences	4
MUSC 420	Hip-Hop Music and Culture	4
MUSC 460	Film Music: History and Function From 1930 to the Present	4
THTR 393	Cultural Identities in Performance	4
THTR 395	Drama as Human Relations	4

Narrative in Cross-Cultural Perspective (choose one course)
ANTH 372	Interpretation of Myth and Narrative	4
COLT 264	Asian Aesthetic and Literary Traditions	4
CTCS 200	History of the International Cinema I	4
CTCS 201	History of the International Cinema II	4
EALC 125	Introduction to Contemporary East Asian Film and Culture	4
EALC 332	Korean Literature in English Translation	4
EALC 342	Japanese Literature and Culture	4
EALC 452	Chinese Fiction	4
EALC 455	Japanese Fiction	4
ENGL 444	Native American Literature	4
ENGL 445	The Literatures of America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives	4
FREN 320	French Cinema and French Society: 1900 to the Present	4
GERM 360	20th Century German Prose: Texts and Films	4
ITAL 446	Italian Cinema and Society	4
THTR 210***	Theory and Practice of World Theatre I	4
THTR 211***	Theory and Practice of World Theatre II	4

Western Narrative in Historical Perspective (choose one course)
CLAS 325	Ancient Epic	4
CLAS 337	Ancient Drama	4
CLAS 380	Approaches to Myth	4
COLT 312	Heroes, Myths and Legends in Literature and the Arts	4
ENGL 423*	English Literature of 18th Century (1660-1780)	4
ENGL 424*	English Literature of the Romantic Age (1780-1832)	4
ENGL 425*	English Literature of the Victorian Age (1832-1890)	4
ENGL 426*	Modern English Literature (1890-1945)	4
ENGL 430	Shakespeare	4
ENGL 440**	American Literature to 1865	4
ENGL 441**	American Literature, 1865-1920	4
GERM 340	German Prose Fiction From Goethe to Thomas Mann	4
GERM 372	Literature and Culture in Berlin of the 1920s	4
SLL 302	Modern Russian Literature	4
SLL 344	Tolstoy: Writer and Moralist	4
SLL 345	Literature and Philosophy: Dostoevsky	4
SLL 346	Russian Drama and the Western Tradition	4
SPAN 304	Survey of Fiction (taught in Spanish)	4
SPAN 305	Survey of Drama (taught in Spanish)	4
THTR 301***	Greek and Roman Theatre	4
THTR 302***	Shakespeare and His World	4

Contemporary Fiction and Drama (choose one course)
AMST 448	Chicano and Latino Literature	4
AMST 449	Asian American Literature	4
COLT 345	Realist Fiction	4
COLT 348	Modernist Fiction	4
COLT 351	Modern and Contemporary Drama	4
COLT 420	The Fantastic	4
COLT 472	Los Angeles Crime Fiction	4
COLT 475	Politics and the Novel	4
EALC 354	Modern Chinese Literature in Translation	4
ENGL 375	Science Fiction	4
ENGL 442**	American Literature, 1920 to the Present	4
ENGL 447	African American Narrative	4
ENGL 455	Contemporary Prose	4
ENGL 463	Contemporary Drama	4
FREN 347	Race, Gender and Power in Francophone Literature	4
SLL 303	Contemporary Russian Literature	4
SLL 348	Nabokov's Novels: Art and Exile	4
THTR 300	Introduction to Modern Drama	4
THTR 314***	Advanced Topics in Modern Drama	4

Two additional courses (three if CTWR 412/ CTWR 414 are chosen) (8 units) at the upper- division 300 or 400 level, from different departments, chosen from the lists above.

Capstone Enrollment:
MDA 490	Directed Research	4

Total: Nine courses, including at least seven at the upper-division level, for a total of 36 units.

Minor in Consumer Behavior

This interdisciplinary minor explores consumer thinking from the perspectives of psychology, marketing, economics, anthropology, sociology and other departments interested in popular culture. Why do people form the attitudes and impressions they do? How do individual factors, culture, mass media, economics and social trends influence people's decisions?

As with all minors, students must include at least four upper-division courses and four courses dedicated exclusively to this minor (which may be the same four courses). Finally, students must select four courses outside their major department. Psychology majors must choose four courses outside of psychology; business majors must choose four courses outside of the Marshall School of Business.

Requirements		Units
Choose one of the following courses (4 units).
BUAD 307	Marketing Fundamentals	4
PSYC 100	Introduction to Psychology	4

Choose one of the following courses (4 units):
MKT 450	Consumer Behavior and Marketing	4
PSYC 355*	Social Psychology	4
SOCI 320	Social Psychology	4

Choose two of the following courses (8 units):
ANTH 460	Economic Anthropology	4
COMM 302	Persuasion	4
MKT 405*	Advertising and Promotion Management	4
MKT 410*	Personal Selling	4
ECON 432*	Economics of Happiness	4
PSYC 454*	Social Cognition	4
PSYC 457*	Applied Social Psychology	4

Choose one of the following courses (4 units):
COLT 365	Literature and Popular Culture	4
COMM 384	Interpreting Popular Culture	4
ENGL 392	Visual and Popular Culture	4
HIST 380	American Popular Culture	4
MKT 470*	Marketing Research	4
PSYC 490x	Directed Research	4

Total requirements: five courses

20 units

Minor in Managing Human Relations

This interdisciplinary minor is intended for students in all schools with an interest in human relations as a subject of study or professional goal. In addition to course work in organizational behavior, social psychology and management, this minor includes attention to questions of ethics and leadership.

As with all minors, students must include at least four upper-division courses and four courses dedicated exclusively to this minor (not used for credit toward a major, another minor or general education requirements). Finally, students must select four courses outside their major department. Students seeking the Bachelor of Arts in Sociology must choose four courses outside of sociology; those seeking the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration must choose four courses outside the Marshall School.

Requirements		units
Choose one course from the following (4 units):
BUAD 304	Organizational Behavior	4
PSYC 355*	Social Psychology	4
SOCI 320	Social Psychology	4

Choose one course from the following (4 units):
MOR 431*	Interpersonal Competence and Development	4
PSYC 457*	Applied Social Psychology	4
SOCI 340	Organizations: Bureaucracy and Alternatives to Bureaucracy	4
SOCI 342	Race Relations	4
SOCI 345	Social Institutions	4

Choose one course from the following list of classes on leadership (4 units):
CLAS 370	Leaders and Communities: Classical Models	4
IR 303	Leadership and Diplomacy	4
MOR 470*	Global Leadership	4
MDA 325	Case Studies in Modern Leadership	4
MDA 365	The Art and Adventure of Leadership	4
PHIL 335	Theoretical Models of Leadership	4

Choose one course from the following list of classes on ethics (4 units):
BUCO 425*	Public Communication in Ethics and Research	4
MOR 421*	Social and Ethical Issues in Business	4
PHIL 340	Ethics	4
REL 341	Ethics in a Technological Society	4
REL 375	Conflict and Change and the Ethics of Business	4

Choose one of the following three capstone classes (4 units):
ECON 332*	Contracts, Organizations, and Institutions	4
ECON 471*	Economics of Labor Markets and Human Capital	4
MOR 471	Managing and Developing People	4
SOCI 340	Work and the Workplace	4

Total requirements: five courses

20 units

Minor in Mathematical Finance

This interdisciplinary minor was created for students in business, economics and mathematics, whose majors already require some of the introductory course work. Students in other programs are welcome but should expect the minor to require more units than it does for students in those programs.

As with all minors, students must include at least four upper-division courses and four courses dedicated exclusively to this minor (which may be the same four courses). Finally, students must select four courses outside their major department. Economics majors must choose four courses outside of economics; math majors must choose four courses outside of math; business majors must choose four courses outside of the Marshall School of Business. These may be the same courses used to meet the first two conditions.

requirements		units
ECON 203	Principles of Microeconomics	4
ECON 205	Principles of Macroeconomics	4

Choose one of the following two sequences (8 units):
ECON 303*	Intermediate Microeconomic Theory	4
ECON 305*	Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory	4
or
BUAD 350*	Macroeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions	4
BUAD 351*	Economic Analysis for Business Decisions	4

Choose two courses, one from each of the following pairs (8 units):
MATH 118x	Fundamental Principles of the Calculus, or
MATH 125	Calculus I	4
MATH 218*	Probability for Business, or
MATH 407*	Probability Theory	4

Choose two courses from the following list (8 units):

MATH 126 or MATH 127; MATH 225 or MATH 245; MATH 226 or MATH 227; MATH 408 or MATH 467

Choose one course from the following list (4 units): BUAD 306, BUAD 310, ECON 350*, ECON 357*, FBE 441*

Choose one course from the following list (4 units): ECON 452*, ECON 457*, FBE 324*, FBE 421*, FBE 443*, FBE 445*, FBE 459*, FBE 462*, FBE 464*

Choose one course from the following two (2 units): ITP 165x, ITP 168x

Total requirements, for students with no prior course work: 42 units

Students majoring in business administration, economics or mathematics can meet many of these requirements with course work that also satisfies their majors. In addition to those classes, students in those majors must complete the following requirements:

• Business majors satisfy 24 units with course work that is also required for the major and need to complete only 18 units in MATH, ECON and ITP
• Economics majors satisfy 20-24 units with course work required for the major (including one major elective), needing only 18-22 units in BUAD, FBE, ITP and MATH
• Mathematics majors satisfy 16 units with course work required for the major, needing only 26 units in BUAD, ECON, FBE and ITP.

Honors in Multimedia Scholarship

Director: Holly Willis

Program Overview

Honors in Multimedia Scholarship offers qualified undergraduate students an opportunity to learn new approaches to the production of knowledge through the critical application of multimedia expression and scholarship. The program is based on the premise that a century of mass media and the advent of digital communication have transformed the way ideas are expressed and understood across the university. As a result, the notion of literacy, which has traditionally referred to the reading and writing of printed materials, has fundamentally expanded to include new forms of expression.

The program includes a systematic introduction to the history, theory and practice of multimedia scholarship within a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts. Over the four-year program, students develop and refine their abilities to conduct research, author and publish work in methods appropriate to their specific field of study. The program is open to students from all disciplines.

At the Institute for Multimedia Literacy's Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program, students participate in small classes taught by leading faculty members. The program enrolls entering freshman students, and a limited number of sophomore students, who will integrate multimedia courses into their program of study.

Students are expected to integrate theory into the practice of multimedia scholarship; for this reason, courses include discussion of historical and theoretical material, instruction in basic research practices, as well as opportunities to develop skills in multimedia authorship, collaboration, leadership and creative thinking.

Year 1: Foundational study of the contexts, concepts and competencies of multimedia literacy, embodied in the languages of new media.

Year 2: Beginning integration of multimedia approaches within chosen disciplines and/or in conjunction with the university's general education requirements.

Year 3: Development of proficiency with multimedia as a scholarly tool within a student's own discipline or field of study.

Year 4: Completion of a yearlong project that demonstrates mastery of discipline-based multimedia authorship.

Upon successfully completing IML 101, students may earn honors in multimedia scholarship by completing a minimum of 20 units of required course work culminating in a capstone thesis seminar during their final year.

To maintain small classes and allow for extensive discussion and project development, the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program requires students to be highly motivated; there is extensive reading, writing and multi­media authoring. Honors in Multimedia Scholarship (IML) required courses are not available for pass/no pass registration.

Information about courses for the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship and other program offerings can be obtained from the student advisor at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy office.

Electives		Units
IML 104	Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: The Languages of New Media II	4
IML 340	Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: The Praxis of New Media	2

Multimedia Scholarship (IML)

IML 101 Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: The Languages of New Media I (4, FaSp) An introduction to the expressive range of screen languages in their cultural, historical, and technological contexts.

IML 104 Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: The Languages of New Media II (4, FaSp) An introduction to the expressive range of screen languages in their cultural, historical, and technological contexts. Recommended Preparation: one course from the Multimedia in the Core General Education program.

IML 140 Workshop in Multimedia Authoring (2, max 4, FaSp) Introduction to the expressive potential of multimedia as a critical and creative tool, supplementing traditional forms of academic work.

IML 340 Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: The Praxis of New Media (2) An intermediate level blend of theory and practice that approaches scholarly multimedia work in the context of its cultural and technological environment. Open to all students. Recommended Preparation: IML 101, IML 104 or MDA 140.

IML 346 Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: Methods in Scholarly Multimedia (2, max 4, FaSp) Emphasizing rigorous student multimedia research and strategies for authorship within a disciplinary context, this course prepares students to undertake their thesis projects. Open to students in the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program only. Prerequisite: IML 101 or IML 104.

IML 400 Web Based Scholarly Multimedia (2, FaSp) Theory and practice related to the analysis and creation of scholarly Web-based media projects. Recommended preparation: IML 101 or IML 104.

IML 420 New Media for Social Change (4, max 8, FaSp) Creating real social change through multimedia, working in collaboration with a local nonprofit organization. Recommended preparation: IML 101 or IML 340.

IML 440 Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: Multimedia Honors Thesis Project I (4, FaSp) Exploration of theoretical and practical concerns of advanced level interdisciplinary multimedia research and authorship. Open to students in the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program only. Senior standing. Prerequisite: IML 101 or IML 104, IML 346.

IML 444 Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: Multimedia Honors Thesis Project II (4, FaSp) Production of Multimedia Honors thesis. Open to students in the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program only. ­Prerequisite: IML 440.

IML 466 Digital Studies Symposium (4, FaSp) Lectures, presentations, and readings on the critical and creative challenges of contemporary multi-screen digital media practices.

IML 490x Directed Research (2-8, max 8, FaSpSm) Individual research and production. Not available for degree credit. Prerequisite: IML 101 or IML 104.

IML 499 Special Topics (4) Selected topics in multimedia literacy. Open to students in the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program only.

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