Fall 2024 Registration - Electives List

*NEW* As you're planning your fall courses, you can cross reference this list of previously approved electives to see what other MA students have taken . Remember, you can submit your elective request directly in the registration survey! Keep in mind the list is not exhaustive and you're welcome to request other courses not on this list for approval. Learn more about taking electives here.

2024 MA Research Showcase

Wednesday, May 1 | 4-6pm
MCC 8th Floor

We hope you will join us for the year-end Research Showcase, featuring various culminating projects from our graduating MA students! Sushi and drinks will be provided. Please RSVP!

Get Involved with SAMM! General Interest Meeting 4/4

If you're passionate about building community at MCC, we hope you'll consider joining SAMM!

If you'd like to learn more about the election process or board member responsibilities, please join our information session next Thursday, April 4th at 7pm via Zoom (link right here!). Feel free to reach out to mcc.samm.edu with any questions in the meantime!

2024 Leboff Public Lecture April 11 | 6pm

The 2024 LeBoff Public Lecture is part of the NYU LeBoff Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program, sponsored through the generous support of Phyllis and Gerald LeBoff. The program brings to MCC the world's most prominent scholars, writers, and creative thinkers in media, communication, and cultural studies. This year we will be hosting Professor Deb Cowen (University of Toronto) and we hope you'll join us! RSVP.

Anchored in infrastructure, entangled crises of climate and coloniality define our conjuncture. Journeying through logistics systems that both constitute and cut across colonial ecologies, this talk travels along haunted rails, across racial borders of land, labor and the human, and into the singular microbiome. Holding seemingly disparate sites of crisis together, it attends to practices of survivance of those who refuse the violently sculpted borders of life and death. What infrastructural inheritances usher in this era? How might an immanent politics of care and collaboration – a palliative politics - orient us towards other paths?

Student Highlight:
Pritha Mukherji

MA student Pritha Mukherji will be performing at Sour Mouse NYC on Sunday, April 7 at 3:30pm and all are welcome to join!

"I consider myself a huge media enthusiast. Through the MCC program at NYU Steinhardt, I find myself extremely privileged to learn more about the world of media and explore possibilities that I had never thought of. By navigating the transnational flows of the global media economy, I get the chance to think about interlinking various media systems and economies together to put forth content that is distinct in terms of style and cultural setting yet can be jointly produced.

I've been associated with Jazz By Jorei, a band based in the Lower East Side, since October 2023. They host free open mics at 110 Delancey Street and are on a mission to reintroduce Jazz music to the younger generation. The showcase I'm doing with them is a tribute to artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Sarah Vaughn, who were the trailblazers of Jazz music with songs like Fly Me To The Moon and Cry Me A River."

Showtime/MTV Entertainment - Research Assistant Position

Position Overview:
We are looking for a motivated candidate to help conduct a deep dive research project on the MTV Brand, which will ultimately serve to help source and update the MTV Wikipedia Page. This role will involve gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing information from various accredited sources to showcase
recent research on how MTV has evolved from a cable channel to a global content brand. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in finding and sourcing accurate and up-to-date information and research.

Key Responsibilities
• Conduct thorough research on MTV brand, focused on its evolu&on from a cable network into a lobal content brand and studio that drives cable, streaming, digital and social.
• Identify and compile relevant information from reputable sources to including:
- Peer reviewed academic journals
- Books released by well-known publishing houses
- Research Reports and Studies
- News articles in mainstream, na&onal publica&ons
- Trade publica&ons with broad audiences
• Analyze research and share back insights and findings with the MTV team members on findings and share detailed sources
• Analyze existingng Wikipedia content to help identify which sources may be applicable to this project

Qualifications:
• Gradates or current students in a graduate program, preferably in media studies who are excited about digging into the evolution of the storied MTV brand
• Ability to access potentially hard to find aticles and research

Timing
• 2–3-month project, ideally from April – May 2024, with potential for longer term

Pay Rate
• $30-50/hour