The Community & Fandom major allows students to study various aspects of culture that are separate from, or differentiate themselves from the mainstream idea of "culture", or that present new ways of examining consumers and the emotional resonance of various media products on contemporary audiences.

The major consists of courses that focus on genre films and television, audience analysis, affect, and Popular Culture.

Available Concentrations:

• Fandom Culture and Arts

• Behavior and Social Identity

• Media and Cinema Studies

• Journalism

• Public Relations and Advertising

• Communication Studies

As a student in the Community & Fandom program, you will have various opportunities to join forces with Promise students across many majors and clubs to gain the knowledge and skills required to lead, analyze, contribute, inform, educate, entertain, and change the way the we participate in fandom.

This program aims to:

• Provide interested students with a focused concentration on fandom and cult media.

• Allow students to understand how audiences and media producers design media to confront and challenge contemporary ideologies.

• Offer alternatives to the mainstream.

• and Engineer deliberate affective reactions in audiences.

The primary Media & Culture course provides students with a theoretical and methodological background in the interdisciplinary field of cultural studies, which considers media and culture as sites for the construction and contestation of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and nation. The course provides a foundation in critical cultural studies, ideology critique, critical race and gender studies, transnational media studies and active audience studies.