B.A. in Media Literacy

The Media Literacy subdivision in the Department of German and Romance? Languages and Literatures is dedicated to the study of evolving cultures ?of literacy—from manuscripts and the material history of the book to ?performance, film, and emerging digital cultures—that each call for ?singular modes of readerly or spectatorial engagement. The subdivision connects our faculty’s research and teaching in literary and cultural studies to the ?fields of film and media to encompass such areas as film ?history and esthetics, media theory, and performance theory. The ?emergence of new forms of literacy attendant to the material objects and platforms ?through which culture is transmitted requires both a historical? perspective and appropriate analytic or critical paradigms. Many ?faculty and students throughout GRLL ask in their research how different media bring about distinct? forms of reading, and how interpretive practices can be at one and the same time the stimulu? for cultural change and the expression of that change.