MEDST-BA - Media Studies

Courses in the department provide students with a better understanding of self and society through a comprehensive overview of media institutions, forms, contents, creative processes, and social effects. They assist in preparing the student for professions that require historical, theoretical, and creative knowledge of the media, such as education, the law, government service, the ministry, advertising and public relations, social services, industrial communications, and the arts and humanities. A major in the department encourages the student to view the media, both in the United States and around the world, as a unified field of study, while allowing a concentration in subjects and areas of special personal interest.