How's the Political Science and Film Programs?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Virginia
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<p>Can anyone tell me anything about these two programs at UVA? I'm currently torn between UVA and BU...</p>

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<p>If not film, even information on just the media studies program as a whole would be great :)</p>

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<p>The Media Studies program at UVa is small with a heavy bent toward “the cultural anthropology of media.” There is no strong focus to the program – it is really a hodge-podge of classes. The film classes are cross listed between Media Studies and the Drama department. I have no other info on them as my student never took any film classes. The popular MS courses are the quirky ones like “The Wire” and “Gangster Films.” That said, UVa is a terrific school, with a terrific campus, in a terrific college town. </p>

<p>So, the question is really, what are you looking for in your college experience? If you really want to concentrate on communications studies and get hands on experience through your course work, BU is much better for that. Same if you prefer going to college in a city – BU, not UVa is the school for that. If you are content with a broad liberal arts academic experience with the opportunity to participate in film making as an extra-curricular activity, you can find that at UVa. See the discussion at: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-virginia/1465952-media-film-journalism-studies-uva.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-virginia/1465952-media-film-journalism-studies-uva.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Politics is one of U.Va.'s premiere fields and we have several interdisciplinary majors application based majors dedicated to it along with normal majors. I believe the Politics Department offers both a Foreign Affairs and a Government major. The Politics Department also offers a highly selective and prestigious Honors Politics major which only selects ~6 students per year, but is based on the tutorial system of Cambridge and you have intensive discussions with distinguished professors. Some other interdisciplinary majors off the top of my head are Politics, Philosophy, and Law (PPL) and Political and Social Thought (PST).</p>

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<p>Are Foreign Affairs and Government of around equal caliber, or is one program a little stronger/more prominent than the other?</p>