Students Working Together

The Park School education combines hands-on courses with lecture and discussion courses covering theory, analysis, history, and media impacts. In addition to your Park courses in communications, you'll take 25% to 50% of your classes outside the Park School to give you a rigorous liberal arts education. Our students can create media, but they develop their voices and the messages they can share as they rise in influence in their chosen part of the field. Importantly, students learn to work in teams and broaden their perspectives on a world of diversity and change.

The Park School education combines hands-on courses with lecture and discussion courses covering theory, analysis, history, and media impacts. In addition to your Park courses in communications, you'll take 25% to 50% of your classes outside the Park School to give you a rigorous liberal arts education. Our students can create media, but they develop their voices and the messages they can share as they rise in influence in their chosen part of the field. Importantly, students learn to work in teams and broaden their perspectives on a world of diversity and change.

The Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts Program expects that students will

  • engage in critical thinking about the discipline, their ideas, and the ideas of other students;
  • address their peers and course instructors with respect during lectures, discussions, and workshops;
  • read the assigned material for their courses, including textbooks, books, articles, and other class resources, as well as the work of their peers submitted for class critique;
  • write and submit work that adheres to the proper format outlined for a particular course—this work should be proofread and copyedited before submission to correct grammar, syntax, spelling, and punctuation mistakes;
  • write critical studies analytical papers in designated humanities (HU) and liberal arts (LA) classes using appropriate academic language—these papers should develop deductive arguments, define and apply theoretical/historical models, marshal evidence, and render cogent analysis;
  • work collaboratively with their peers in respectful ways and serve as a productive, contributing member of their groups in those classes requiring group projects;
  • adhere to all submission deadlines detailed on the course syllabi;
  • respect and operate under the mandate that class attendance and coursework take priority over non-academic, non-course related activities; and
  • dedicate an appropriate amount of time to work outside of the class per week—three-credit hour courses are designed around an expectation of six hours of work by the student outside of class per week, and four-credit hour courses have an expectation of eight hours.