Minor in Media Studies

The Media Studies minor allows students to focus on the interpretation, history, and artistic production of both traditional and emerging media forms, including print journalism, literature, film, television, and the internet.

Students will have the opportunity to learn about the history of media; the ways in which media connects to other forms of cultural expression; its evolving social impact, and how to analyze its products and effects.

Media Studies draws from courses across disciplines, including English, History, Sociology, Marketing and Computer Science. Students choose from a wide variety of electives based on their interest and focus. See courses for electives offerings and prerequisites.

For more information about the Minor in Media Studies at Yeshiva College, please contact Professor Elizabeth Stewart at estewart@yu.edu

Media Studies Learning Objectives

1. To provide students with the skills to navigate and contribute to a global discourse in the realm of contemporary media.
2. To empower students with the skills to express and produce their own visual and written work, while striving to advocate for the expression of marginalized perspectives.
3. To bridge theory to production, providing students with an academic foundation based on historical and contemporary trends of media practices. This knowledge can then buttress students’ creative contributions in visual and written media.
4. To prepare students for work in media related endeavors such as filmmaking, directing, producing, writing, editing, journalism and more.
5. The Department of Media Studies analyzes media culture, technology, labor, literacy, policy, infrastructure, and inequity.
6. Our goal is to provide students with the tools to evaluate and shape media. With global reach, our faculty and students examine media from a variety of perspectives that include media history, aesthetics and form, audience analysis, media uses, the impact of media on public opinion, and the relations between media and the law, including free speech issues, as well as the commerce and regulation of media in the public sphere. The department engages the role of media in these social arrangements through a combination of humanistic and social scientific approaches. We further focus on connecting with media stakeholders, drawing on close proximity and connection to Washington, DC and other national media centers to explore the global questions of the field.

Program Information

Media Studies Requirements