电视文艺学是一门新兴的社会学科，是一门研究一切电视文艺现象、传播活动及其规律的科学。相对于实践来说，理论的研究和发展是十分滞后的。《电视文艺研究》课程着重于电视文艺理论和学科体系的研究，从美学和哲学的高度审视电视文艺的生产创作。

The science of television literature is a rising social studies with its focus on television literature phenomena and communication activities and law. The theoretical research and development is relatively backward in contrast with practice in this field. The course of Research on Television literature attaches great importance to study on the theory and discipline system of television literature in terms of television literature phenomena and communication activities and law, analyze and discuss the relations between television literature and the traditional aesthetics, literature and arts, technological development and commodity character, and survey the produce and creation of television literature aesthetically and philosophically.