{"id":743,"date":"2021-09-15T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/cmap\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2022-05-03T14:18:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T19:18:59","slug":"degree-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/cmap\/degree-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Degree Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CMAP joint-Ph.D. students are required to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"6\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ake four core team-taught <a href=\"#seminars\">seminars<\/a> (CMAP 8001-8004), sequenced over the course of two years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"6\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Participate in two <a href=\"#maymester\">modules<\/a> of workshops (CMAP 8010-8011), offered in alternating years during Vanderbilt\u2019s Maymester term. These workshops are specially designed to build more advanced skills in creating media objects (films, audio content, e-books, online educational materials, websites, innovative presentations, databases, etc.) and managing digital information.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"6\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">C<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">omplete 40 hours of <\/span><a href=\"#internships\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">internship<\/span><\/a> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">work <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">during<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> their graduate studies. These internships offer opportunities to probe one\u2019s knowledge and media skills within non-academic settings.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"6\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">S<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">erve as a <\/span><a href=\"#immersion\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">TA <\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on campus or contribute to an approved undergraduate creative project within the context of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/immersion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Immersion Vanderbilt<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"6\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Complete <span data-contrast=\"auto\">the required courses in their home department.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CMAP doctoral students take their qualifying exams as stipulated by their primary departments. They write just one dissertation to fulfill the requirements for the joint Ph.D. However, joint-degree dissertations typically incorporate perspectives that reflect a student\u2019s participation in CMAP core seminars and digital practice modules. CMAP strongly encourages new and experimental formats of the dissertation. The candidate\u2019s Ph.D. committee for the dissertation must include at least one member of the CMAP affiliated<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">faculty. During the semester leading up to their dissertation defense, students are required to design two online media presentations featuring their dissertation. One of these presentations should address specialized audiences, the other a general lay public.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"seminars\">Seminars<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Each of the four required CMAP seminars will be\u202f offered once in a two-year cycle. Students enrolled in the program move through these seminars as a cohort; they either start the cycle with CMAP 8001 or CMAP 8003. Each seminar is also open to interested students who are not officially enrolled in the\u202fjoint Ph.D. program.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CMAP 8001: Media and the Senses<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Rigorous introduction to modern media theory. Special attention will be paid to the way in which contemporary media address and reshape the human sensorium. Students will engage with different theories of vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste, and locomotion, and with how media technologies such phonography, photography, cinema, and digital imaging have captured and reworked human sensory perception. (fall 2022)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CMAP 8002: History of Media<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Designed to offer a broad historical survey of different media technologies and of how different media have been used (and feared) as modes of knowing and engaging with the world. Special attention to moments of historical rupture in order to reconstruct the technological protocols and social meanings of older and new media: the invention of the printing press, the advent of photographic and phonographic inscription in the nineteenth century, the transition from silent to sound film, the coming of personal computing, the emergence of x-ray and MRI technologies. (spring 2023)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CMAP 8003: Media and Society<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Provides a rich set of concepts and perspectives to think about the role of media in modern society. Addresses different political and economic frameworks of media production and distribution, the role of authorship and copyright in an era of digital distribution, the tensions between privacy and publicness in a time of advanced data collection, the use of media in political decision making, the role of different media in the negotiation of gender and sexual difference, and media and disability. Additionally focuses on the rise of social networking, and the transformation of entertainment industries and academic institutions in times of online connectivity and digital data management. (fall 2023)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CMAP 8004: Media Ecology<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Designed to study how media of all sorts have come to define the spaces of human life, action, experience and what we may call \u201cour world.\u201d Focus on the impact of media technologies on built environments such as urban centers, academic learning spaces, museum and gallery settings, hospitals, transitory spaces (airports, malls, train stations), and domestic interiors. Additional attention to how different technologies and media are used to alter the shape of our natural surroundings, be it to address issues of climate change or remake specific landscapes in form of aesthetic projects. (spring 2024)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"maymester\">Maymester Modules<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Maymester modules introduce doctoral students to principles of creative media practice and various techniques of data analysis, visualization, and management.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>Maymester modules are each\u202f offered in alternating years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CMAP 8010: Creative Media Practice<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Designed both to foster graduate students\u2019 skills in various areas of digital media practice and to help doctoral candidates to develop creative solutions to present research projects in their fields of specialization and matters of public concern. During the first week of this course, students will expand their proficiency in digital sound and image manipulation, the design of websites and mobile apps, as well as the development of basic video games and 3D and virtual reality presentation formats. Meeting twice daily in 2-hour sessions, Vanderbilt faculty and staff experts, will expose students to different software and hardware options in these areas and deepen their knowledge of creative digital practice necessary to develop more complex hybrid media products. During the next two weeks of the course, students will apply these skills to develop two individual or collaborative projects under the daily supervision of a creative media artist and practitioner. This course takes place during Vanderbilt\u2019s Maymester. (May 2023)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CMAP 8011: Working with Data<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Designed to familiarize students with basic knowledge about existing software strategies and hardware options, and to foster critical openness toward emerging technologies and techniques. The course includes workshops and collaborative project-oriented work on Fundamentals of Digitization, Understanding Databases, Text and Data Mining Strategies, Understanding Topic Modeling, Fundamentals of Medical Imaging Techniques and Technologies, Introduction to Geographical Information and Mapping Systems, Basics Concepts of Statistics, and Copyright Law in the Digital Age. This course takes place during Vanderbilt\u2019s Maymester. (May 2022, May 2024)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"internships\">Internships<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CMAP students are required to complete 40 hours of internship work at some point in their graduate studies. These internships offer opportunities to probe one\u2019s knowledge and media skills within non-academic settings. Students either \u202fidentify and secure \u202ftheir own internship preferences, whether in Nashville or elsewhere, or explore various options in collaboration with the program director and\/or the the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vanderbilt Career Center<\/a>.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"immersion\">Immersion &amp; Teaching<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During one semester of their fourth or fifth year of graduate study at Vanderbilt, CMAP students use their expertise in the theory, analysis, and making of digital objects to serve as a teaching assistant in a select course on campus or contribute to the creative project of one or several undergraduate students in their respective home departments. Operating within the context of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/immersion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immersion Vanderbilt<\/a>, this latter contribution may take many different forms and will be closely coordinated between the CMAP student\u2019s home department and the CMAP program director.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the past<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, CMAP students have served as TAs for <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ourses <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">such as <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CMA 1600: Introduction to Film and Media Studies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">GER 2442: War on Screen<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMAP joint-Ph.D. students are required to: Take four core team-taught seminars (CMAP 8001-8004), sequenced over the course of two years. 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