Learning Outcomes for Film and Media Studies Ph.D.
The five following Program Learning Outcomes have been developed to directly correspond to the core curriculum and program requirements in order to clearly communicate expectations for students, to monitor student progress, and to assess the effectiveness of the program design. PLOs 4b and 5c are designed to ensure students develop skills that are adaptable to non-academic contexts and professional paths.
PLO 1. Core Knowledge
Demonstrate breadth and depth mastery of the discipline:
a) Broad understanding of different approaches to understanding film, television, and digital media and video games as aesthetic forms, industries, technologies, ideological formations, and sites of audience engagement.
b) Advanced understanding of particular methodologies, including the writing of history, operations of power, and disciplinary subfields in relation to film, television, digital media, and/or video games.
PLO 2. Research Methods and Analysis.
Demonstrate advanced research skills:
a) Synthesize existing knowledge, identifying and accessing appropriate resources, and critically analyzing one’s own claims and those of others.
b) Master application of existing research methodologies, such as historical and interdisciplinary approaches to defined objects of research.
c) Communicate in a style appropriate to the discipline.
PLO 3. Contribution to the discipline
Conceive, develop, write, and revise an original and substantive research project.
PLO 4. Pedagogy
a) Demonstrate excellence as a Teaching Assistant by mastering course material, leading effective discussions, evaluating student work and providing constructive feedback, and engaging in professional and timely communication and conduct.
b) Demonstrate effective oral communication of concepts to a range of audiences and skill levels.
c) Demonstrate effective course development.
PLO 5. Professional skills
Demonstrate professional engagement and effective scholarly communication:
a) Communicate in a style appropriate to the discipline.
b) Show commitment to personal and professional development through engagement in professional societies, publication, and other knowledge transfer modes.
c) Recognize ways to apply knowledge and research skills to non-academic professional contexts.