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Program Description

The Performing and Media Arts (PMA) Minor encourages students to do focused yet flexible coursework in the department's inter-disciplines. This coursework enables students to draw connections between live and mediated forms of performance and production, as well as between studies and practices of these forms. Students pursuing the PMA minor work closely in consultation with faculty advisors to ensure that their work in the department is completed in courses that integrate performance and media and demonstrate the cross-pollinations between them.

Department of Performing and Media Arts Minors

The Department of Performing and Media Arts offers four minors. In addition, the Department administers the interdisciplinary Media Studies minor. The minors are open to all undergraduate students in the university, including those outside the College of Arts and Sciences. All credit toward the minor must be from PMA courses taken at Cornell or from PMA courses taken with Cornell approved programs. Independent Study courses do not count toward any PMA minor.

Academic Standards

Grade Requirements

Each course must be completed with a grade of C or better to count toward the minor. No S-U grades are accepted unless there is no letter grade option.

Minor Declaration Information

To declare a minor, you will need to contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies. 

Minor must be declared before week three of the final semester of enrollment at Cornell. Students should declare as early as possible to gain the appropriate advising to fulfill the minor.

Program Information

• Minimum Credits for Minor: 18

Minor Requirements

All courses must be taken for 3-credits or more, except in the case of the Production Labs.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Courses 1
PMA 2100	Introduction to Performing and Media Arts	3
Select one of the following global studies courses:		4
PMA 3550	Global Cinema and Media
PMA 3750	Global Theatre and Performance
PMA 3226	Global Dance and Decolonizing Movement
One course in the area designated by the Design rubric
One course in the area designated by the Creative Authorship rubric
One course in the area designated by the Embodied Performance rubric
PMA 1410	Media Production Laboratory 2	2
or PMA 1610	Production Technology Laboratory

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First-year Writing Seminars do not count for the minor.

Cross listed courses not taught or co-taught by PMA faculty will not count as credit for any PMA Minor.

Courses taken through Study Abroad programs, other than those directly affiliated with Cornell (such as Cornell-in-Rome), cannot be used toward the minor.

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Credits earned from Production Labs can only be used to fulfill the Production Lab requirement.