Media Production and Publishing Minor
This minor offers students the opportunity to think about, and intervene in, the media forms they consume by explicitly studying the cultures, processes, and practices of production. Courses in the minor investigate questions surrounding the sociology, politics, and economics of production, the formation of taste and consumption practices. In addition to getting a solid grounding in key concepts in and critical approaches to literary and media production, students will also gain the opportunity to engage in production practices brought together with Practicum requirement in the form of an internship. This is an ideal minor for students aspiring to careers or further education in the media and literary industries, but also those who seek to intervene in craft culture by making in small but significant ways.
Minor Requirements (18 Credits)
Foundations (6 credits)
| COM 201 | Fundamentals of Media Studies and Criticism | 3 |
| LC 100 | The Stories We Live By | 3 |
Electives (6 credits)
May not overlap with a student’s major(s) or minor(s). Only one may be at the 100-level.
| BUS 385 | Consumer Behavior in International Marketing | 3 |
| CRW 100 | Introduction to Creative Writing | 3 |
| COM 105 | Introduction to Communication and Media Studies | 3 |
| COM 203 | Communication Research Methods | 3 |
| COM 295 | Media Consumption, Fashion, and Identity | 3 |
| COM 301 | Globalization and Media | 3 |
| COM 310 | Issues in Journalism | 3 |
| CRW 325 | Advanced Creative Writing Workshop | 3 |
| LIT 238 | Crafting the Journey: Studies in Travel Narratives | 3 |
| LIT 256 | Britain in Fragments: Literary Production from 1945 to the Present | 3 |
| LIT 300 | Modernism/Modernity: "Making It New"? | 3 |
| LIT 308 | Printing Dissent: Protest on the Page | 3 |
| LIT 345 | Laughter, Literature, and Culture | 3 |
| STA 106 | Introduction to Printmaking | 3 |
| VCA 200 | The Arts of Independent Publication | 3 |
Academic Travel (3 credits)
| COM 220T | Symbolizing Scottish Folk | 3 |
| COM 230T | Communication, Fashion, and the Formation of Taste (Italy) | 3 |
| LIT 221T | Bloomsbury Britain: Art, Craft, Culture | 3 |
| LIT 255T | Scotland, Story and Song | 3 |
| STA 280T | Adventures in Printmaking | 3 |
Practicum (3 credits)
One of the following. (May not overlap with a student’s major capstone requirement.)
| COM 498 | Internship in Communication and Media Studies | 3 |
| LC 498 | Capstone: Internship in CLCS or Literature | 3 |
Given the applied nature of this program, and in order to allow students to explore theories and practices of media and literary production not offered at Franklin, students may transfer up to two (pre-approved) electives from an outside program (Edinburgh Napier University and Emerson College are two recommended universities).