Communications Minor
Six courses are required for the minor:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Select one of the following two courses: | ||
| Fundamentals of Communication and Media Studies 1 | ||
| Media Industries | ||
| Select one course from the media, culture, and society concentration of the major 2 | ||
| Select one ethics, law, and policy course 3 | ||
| Select three electives in COMC, DTEM, FITV, JOUR, or in appropriate related programs 4 | ||
- 1
Minors are required to complete this requirement by the end of the first semester of their junior year.
- 2
This includes any COMC course except COMC 2329 Media Industries. Any course with the COMC subject code or the COMC attribute code may fulfill this requirement.
- 3
See the below list of Ethics, Law, and Policy courses.
- 4
Any course with the any of the CMS subject codes or attribute codes (COMM, COMC, DTEM, FITV, or JOUR) may fulfill this requirement.
Ethics, Law, and Policy courses
Courses in this group have the CELP attribute.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AAST 3280 | Representing Asians in Journalism and Media | 4 |
| COLI 4570 | Films of Moral Struggle | 4 |
| COMC 2277 | Media and Sexuality | 4 |
| COMC 3240 | Photography, Identity, Power | 4 |
| COMC 3260 | Media Regulation | 4 |
| COMC 3280 | Representing Asians in Journalism and Media | 4 |
| COMC 3310 | Ethics and Popular Culture | 4 |
| COMC 3330 | Peace, Justice, and the Media | 4 |
| COMC 3350 | Media Law | 4 |
| COMC 3370 | Ethical Issues in Media | 4 |
| COMC 3375 | Children and Media | 4 |
| COMC 3380 | International Communication | 4 |
| COMC 4170 | Dissent and Disinformation | 4 |
| COMC 4340 | Freedom of Expression | 4 |
| COMC 4360 | Communication Ethics and the Public Sphere | 4 |
| COMC 4370 | Ethical Controversies in 21st Century Media | 4 |
| DTEM 2450 | Digital Property: Rights, Policies, and Practice | 4 |
| DTEM 3500 | Resistance and Global Activism | 4 |
| DTEM 4430 | Digital Media Ethics | 4 |
| DTEM 4440 | Privacy and Surveillance | 4 |
| DTEM 4470 | Values in Design | 4 |
| DTEM 4480 | Digital Media and Public Responsibility | 4 |
| FITV 2670 | Television and Social Change | 4 |
| FITV 4570 | Films of Moral Struggle | 4 |
| FITV 4660 | Ethics of Reality Television | 4 |
| JOUR 3740 | Ethics and Diversity in Journalism | 4 |
| JOUR 3760 | The Journalist and the Law | 4 |
| JOUR 4750 | Values in the News | 4 |
| JOUR 4770 | Media Law and Journalism Ethics | 4 |
Learning Outcomes
Upon graduation from the communications major or minor in PCS, students will have achieved the following curricular goals:
- Develop a critically-informed understanding of media as a set of industries, institutions, objects, and infrastructures; sites of political, economic, and cultural contestation; and fields of creative production.
- Understand how media–as historically situated technologies, production practices, and consumption practices–define cultural notions of pastness and futurity.
- Recognize and evaluate the ethical, regulatory, and legal frameworks within which media and communication systems operate, as well as the asymmetrical power relations embedded within these frameworks.
- Assess the affordances of communication and media practices for addressing or perpetuating social inequities, and for promoting positive social change.
- Articulate the varied roles that media play in the shaping of global identities, cultures, and beliefs.
Availability
The minor in communications is available to students in Fordham's School of Professional and Continuing Studies at Lincoln Center and Rose Hill, and to students in Fordham College at Rose Hill (FCRH) and Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) who matriculated at FCRH or FCLC prior to fall 2016. Students may not major in any of the new Communication and Media Studies department majors (COMC, DTEM, FITV, or JOUR) with a minor in communications (COMM) or vice versa.