MULTIMEDIA STUDIES PROGRAM Film, Video & New Media 1 2 3 4 The Sequence in Film, Video and New Media is a comprehensive curriculum that includes courses in film studies, television studies, video production, computer animation, and studies and practices in multimedia, interactive media, and new technologies. As a group, these courses analyze the power and responsibility of American and international film and video from formal, historical, economic and ideological perspectives. The sequence is committed to understanding film, video, new media and television texts in relation to the worlds they represent; the course of study emphasizes not only the meanings of these texts but also the processes by which these meanings are constructed and disseminated. The goal is to help the undergraduate understand the study and creation of visual media within the larger contexts of human visual and verbal expression, and to shape students into sophisticated readers and producers of visual culture. Courses consider both mainstream and alternative media, and include industrial and artistic approaches, linking production techniques and aesthetics to industry, history and politics.