The following list includes core courses in MTS as well as courses in various departments that are illustrative of work in each area of concentration. The listing is not exhaustive. Many departments offer additional topical courses that are appropriate for students in MTS.

MTS 501 Introduction to Graduate Research in Media, Technology and Society (1) Acquaints students with the research practices and professional norms typical of this field of study. It offers survey of research methods in common use including textual analysis, qualitative and quantitative methods.

MTS 502-1 Intellectual Issues in Media, Technology and Society (1) Explores the issues and ideas that have been influential in understanding media and mass culture including; research traditions; concepts of audience, spectatorship, and influence; and relations between science, technology and media culture.

MTS 502-2 Introduction to Graduate Research in Media, Technology and Society (1) Acquaints students with the scholarship and professional pursuits in various fields of media studies.

MTS 504 The Practice of Scholarship (1) Practicum to learn how to write a publishable-quality, social-scientific empirical research paper taught through weekly written exercises and critical class discussions.

MTS 525 Special Topics Research Seminar (1) Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

MTS 590 Research (1, 2, or 3) Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation.

Courses in the Media History Area

ART HIST 401-1,2,3 History, Method and Theory of Art History (1) (1) (1)COMM ST 383 Satellites (1)
COMM ST 473 Mass Media and the Forces of Social Change (1)
COMM ST 474 Mass Media and Democratic Theory (1)
COMM ST 484 Mind and Society in the Information Age (1)
HISTORY 405 Seminar in Historical Analysis (1)
R/TV/F 310-1,2 History of Broadcasting (1) (1)
R/TV/F 312-1,2 History of Film (1) (1)
R/TV/F 313-1 Documentary Film: History and Criticism (1)
R/TV/F 323-1 Experimental Film: History and Criticism (1)
R/TV/F 410 Seminar in Radio/Television/Film History (1)
SOCIOL 439 Comparative and Historical Sociology (1)

Courses in the Theory & Criticism Area

ART HIST 401-1,2 Methods/Historiography of Art History (1) (1)
ART HIST 402 Studies in Representation (1)
ART HIST 487 Studies in 20th Century Art (1)
COMM ST 329 Rhetoric of Science and Technology (1)
COMM ST 414 Issues in Rhetorical Theory (1)
COMM ST 415 Seminar in Rhetorical Criticism (1)
COMM ST 417 Rhetoric and Social Theory (1)
COMM ST 472 Mass Media and the Constitution of the Social World (1)
COMM ST 475 Seminar in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Culture (1)
COMM ST 484 Mind and Society in the Information Age (1)
COMP LIT 481 Studies in Literary Theory (1)
COMP LIT 487 Studies in Literature and the Arts (1)
COMP LIT 488 Studies in Literature and the Disciplines (1)
ENGLISH 413 Studies in the Novel (1)
ENGLISH 465 Studies in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1)
FRENCH 470 Topics in Literary Theory (1)
FRENCH 490 Special Topics in Literature (1)
FRENCH 492 Topics in Culture and Society (1)
GERMAN 441 Studies in Communication and Culture (1)
GNDR ST 390 Topics in Gender Studies (1)
GNDR ST 405 Feminist Theory (1)
ITALIAN 380 Topics in Italian Cinema (1)
PERF ST 410 Studies in Performance (1)
PERF ST 416 Seminar in Cultural Studies and Performance (1)
PERF ST 426 Seminar on Media and Performance (1)
PERF ST 427 Seminar on Modes of Representation (1)
PERF ST 518 Problems in Research (1)
POLI SCI 465 Basic Concepts in Political Theory (1)
POLI SCI 466 Feminist Political Theory (1)
R/TV/F 402 Popular Culture in the Mass Media (1)
R/TV/F 403 Cultural Analysis of Mass Media (1)
R/TV/F 420-1,2 Film Theory (1) (1)
R/TV/F 422 Film Aesthetics (1)
R/TV/F 584 Research Seminar (1)
SOCIOL 416 New Perspectives on Gender in Society (1)
SOCIOL 420 Cultural Sociology and the Sociology of Culture (1)
SOCIOL 440 Stratification, Race and Gender (1)
TH/DRAMA 502 Topics in Theater (1)

Courses in the Media Industries Area

COMM ST 330-1,2 Contemporary Problems in Freedom of Speech (1)
COMM ST 355 Audience Analysis (1)
COMM ST 383 Satellites (1)
COMM ST 455 Audience Studies (1)
COMM ST 472 Mass Media and the Constitution of the Social World (1)
COMM ST 487 Legal and Political Dimensions of Telecommunication (1)
ECE 313 Telecommunication Networks for Multimedia (1)
IEMS 413 Information Systems and Telecommunications Management (1)
MGMT 463 Technology Management (1)
MORS 425-1 Behavior in Organizational Systems (1)
MORS 425-2 Organizations in Their Environments (1)
R/TV/F 310-1,2 History of Broadcasting (1) (1)
R/TV/F 330 Electronic Media Management (1)
R/TV/F 333 Cable Communications (1)
R/TV/F 341 Technological Innovations (1)
R/TV/F 342 Program Planning and Programming (1)
R/TV/F 345 Film as Business (1)
R/TV/F 550 Research Seminar: Telecommunications Management (1)
SOCIOL 302 Sociology of Organizations (1)
SOCIOL 420 Cultural Sociology and the Sociology of Culture (1)

Courses in the Technology & Social Behavior Area

COMM ST 350 Computer-Mediated Communication and Information Systems (1)
COMM ST 355 Audience Analysis (1)
COMM ST 360 Current Perspectives in Organizational Communication Research (1)
COMM ST 455 Audience Studies (1)
COMM ST 460 Seminar in Organizational Communication (1)
COMM ST 465 The Research Literature of Organizational Communication (1)
COMM ST 472 Mass Media and the Constitution of the Social World (1)
COMM ST 484 Mind and Society in the Information Age (1)
COMM ST 486 Communication Systems (1)
MORS 424-1 The Individual and the Organization (1)
MORS 424-2 Social Processes in Organizations (1)
MORS 425-1 Behavior in Organizational Systems (1)
MORS 425-2 Social Processes in Organizations (1)
MORS 520 Seminar in Management and Organizations (1)
SOCIOL 420 Cultural Sociology and the Sociology of Culture (1)

Methods:

Students with a concentration in media industries or technology and social behavior are expected to develop expertise in research methods by taking a minimum of two courses in analytical procedures. Below are research courses which have proven useful. Sequences and special topics courses in other departments may also be appropriate, but should be authorized by the student's chair.

ANTHRO 389 Ethnographic Methods and Analysis (1)
COMM SCI 404-1,2 Experimental Design and Statistics in Communication Science and Disorders (1) (1)
PERF ST 327 Field Methods in Performance Studies (1)
PSYCH 453 Linear Models: Correlation and Regression (1)
PSYCH 454 Psychological Measurement (1)
SOCIOL 401-1,2 Statistical Analysis of Social Data: Applied Regression Methods I, II (1) (1)
SOCIOL 402 Applied Regression Analysis (1)
SOCIOL 403 Field Methods (1)
SOCIOL 404 Designs for Descriptive Causal Research (1)
SOCIOL 405 Research Methods (1)
STAT 330-1,2 Applied Statistics for Research I, II (1) (1)