通过该课程，学生可以从比较的角度研究各种媒体（视觉，印刷，声音，数字），并加深他们对不同媒体作品的特定文化，历史和语言环境的理解。除了CSLC课程以外，拥有至少一种英语以外的其他语言的高级能力，Track I的学生还可以参加外语系（东亚，法语，意大利语，西班牙语等）的研究生课程适当的部门，例如电影艺术学院的批判研究。
The primary goal of the track in comparative media and culture is to prepare students to engage in original research and teaching after acquiring: a broadly based knowledge of the formal specificity and possibilities of different print, visual, sound and digital media, an understanding of the development of different media within their specific cultural and linguistic contexts, and a knowledge of the principles of criticism and theory essential to the analysis, interpretation and evaluation of individual works.