<p>hey guys! i’m going to be starting at brown in the fall and i have 100000 questions, mainly can someone please explain to me what exactly modern culture and media is? i’ve read the description on brown’s site and things online but…can someone just clarify it a bit? thanks
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<p>MCM is Brown’s equivalent of a film studies department. It has its roots in the old Semiotics department. I suggest you look up semiotics to get an idea of how that foundation shaped the department. Most MCM classes take a highly theoretical approach to film analysis. </p>
<p>Before you can take most film classes, you have to take one of the MCM intro classes. However, there are several other departments that offer film studies classes. If you do a search on Mocha with keywords like “film,” “movies” “culture” you’ll find them. </p>
<p>MCM is also the department that has film-making/video production classes. It also has other popular culture classes, on TV and the internet and whatever else might be defined as “media.” </p>
<p>If you’ll excuse the stereotype, MCM has the reputation of attracting students who wear all black and smoke.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Okay so I was looking for something more along the lines of screen writing etc… From my understanding of what you have said will I not find that in mcm?</p>
<p>From a quick search on the Brown scheduler (which you probably now have access to via selfservice.brown.edu), I see screenwriting courses available in the LITR (Literary arts) and TAPS (Theater/performance studies) departments.</p>