A minor concentration in Media Studies will consist of Media Institutions [HCST 126] plus any four courses in Media Studies selected in consultation with the student’s advisor and approved by the department chair. No more than two of these courses may be in film studies. One of the courses must involve media outside the United States. Students may also take Global Media Industries, instead of Media Instutitions.
FACULTY
Leola Johnson
Professor Johnson's most recent scholarly work focuses on transgressive representations of black men and women in low-brow and middle-brow culture. She teaches courses on television, the press and other mass media as social and cultural institutions. Johnson was a regular guest on the program Mental Engineering, which airs on public television stations around the country.
E-Mail: leola.johnson@comcast.net
Jenny Lion
Jenny Lion is a media artist and curator. Her teaching focuses on independently produced media, including artists’ video, experimental and avant-garde cinema, alternative approaches to documentary practice, and collectively-produced television. Her video work was most recently projected on a large window in New York City as part of the program State of Emergency.
E-mail: lion@macalester.edu
Howard Sinker
Howard Sinker, a graduate of Macalester, teaches news reporting. He has authored a chapter in the textbook Real Sports Reporting and has run workshops for journalists with the DART Center for Journalism and Trauma and the Poynter Institute's National Writers Workshops.
Clay Steinman
Clay Steinman has a Ph.D. in cinema studies and has been a journalist, working for magazines and news organizations such as The Nation and Xinhua, the New China News Agency. He has written extensively on critical media theory and is co-author of Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2000). A film review by Professor Steinman of Michael Glawogger's documentary, Workingman's Death, appears in the October-December 2007 issue of Political Communication.
Doug Stone
Doug Stone specializes in media strategy, media relations, campus communications and major events. He teaches journalism courses on writing for print and broadcast. Doug came to Macalester after a 20-year career as a journalist at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and WCCO-TV and press secretary for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone in Washington, D.C.
John Ullmann
John Ullmann is a frequent consultant and speaker in the U.S. and other countries on investigative reporting topics and the role and responsibilities of a free press in a democracy. He is a former executive director of The World Press Institute (WPI), and assistant managing editor for projects at the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis. Projects he supervised during his six years won more than four dozen awards, including the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.
Other Media Studies Resources at Macalester
Media Services provides professional educational media support to the Macalester academic program, as well as limited services for extracurricular activities and for visiting organizations. Located on the fourth floor of the Humanities Building. http://www.macalester.edu/mediaservices/
Minor Concentration Plan forms can be downloaded here [This is a pdf]
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