Program in Media and Modernity, Princeton University
Directors: Beatriz Colomina and Irene V. Small
The Program in Media and Modernity promotes the inter-disciplinary study of the unique cultural formations that came to prominence during the last century, with special attention paid to the interplay between culture and technology, centering on architecture, art, film, photography, literature, phi
losophy, music, history, and media from radio to information technology. It draws on the rich human and material resources that exist at Princeton and provides a focus and forum for research and teaching in the spaces, texts, media, and modernities of the 20th and the 21st century. The program offers a graduate certificate and collaborative teaching, learning, and research opportunities centered on team-taught seminars and cross-disciplinary colloquia. Graduate Certificate in Media and Modernity
The Graduate Program in Media and Modernity offers students from a wide range of fields — architecture to computer science, visual arts to anthropology, literature to political theory — the opportunity to enrich and broaden their study through participation in the interdisciplinary activities of the program. The Graduate Certificate in Media+Modernity is conferred each year to Princeton University graduate students that fulfill the requirements listed below. Ph.D. students may obtain the M+M certificate by fulfilling the following requirements: 1) Enrollment in at least three seminars cross-listed with MOD (Media and Modernity). 2) Regular attendance at M+M events held during the semester. 3) Participation in a dissertation colloquium led by the program's directors. Masters students may obtain the M+M certificate by fulfilling the following requirements: 1) Enrollment in at least three seminars cross-listed with MOD (Media and Modernity). 2) Regular attendance at M+M events held during the semester. Students qualifying for the certificate should send the following information (in a single document) to [email protected] no later than May 1 for awarding of the certificate in that academic year:
a) Full name, department, program, year, expected date of graduation, contact email;
b) Name and contact email of primary advisor;
c) A list of courses fulfilling the qualifications for the Certificate, as listed above. Each of these should include all course numbers under which the class was listed, course titles, instructor names, descriptions (as listed on the Course Offerings website of the University) and the grade option for which each class was taken;
d) Any further information that might be useful and is not covered by the points above. Please note: Students may not gain admission to the University through the Program in Media and Modernity. They may affiliate with the program and earn a certificate from it after having been admitted through a degree-granting department. The certificate does not appear on the official transcript.
