• USF’s Department of Media Studies offers students a liberal arts-based program in media analysis and media production. Combining theory and practice, students learn how to analyze, deconstruct, and critique media, texts, and institutions and how to create, share and collaborate using various forms of media.
  • This program of study, located in multicultural and media-rich San Francisco, provides students with dynamic opportunities to study and create media.
  • Students will:
    • Understand foundational relationships between media, culture, and society
    • Develop critical skills in assessing media as a consumer and citizen
    • Develop foundational skills in media profession practice in electronic media and journalism
    • Understand the historical and contemporary practices of news media in societal context
    • Understand the historical and contemporary practices of electronic media in societal context
    • Understand the legal and ethical constraints on media practices
    • Understand the social theories of media and power, and the development of media criticism
    • Understand and apply theories and research on media uses and effects
    • Develop research skills in media history, theory, and criticism, and in media analysis
    • Gain advanced knowledge