Media Studies

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Wesley O'Brien
CHAIRPERSON
Temporary 6, Room 119
(203) 392-5884 – Fax (203) 392-5242
obrienw1@SouthernCT.edu
Department Secretary: (203) 392-5157

Karen Burke, Associate Professor
Rosemarie Conforti, Associate Professor
Charlene Dellinger-Pate, Associate Professor
Wesley O'Brien, Professor

MAJOR IN MEDIA STUDIES

The B.A. degree program in media studies emphasizes how media impacts the way that the world is perceived.  The degree provides students with an understanding of media and technology, their cultural contexts, and their influences on the individual and on society. Students examine media theory within cultural, historical, political, legal, economic, and social contexts, and explore aesthetic properties of media artifacts. In sum, students learn how they and others create meaning from their experience with media.

Using diverse research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, students learn to question effectively, to research, and to analyze critical media issues and problems that impact their daily lives as well as the world. Students are empowered with the skills and curiosity to become avid researchers in graduate education, industry, and their everyday worlds. Thus, the course of study prepares students for both graduate and professional work in a variety of media-related fields.

By stressing critical thinking and analysis and by developing professional research and writing skills, the curriculum provides students with the highest quality liberal education and increases their appreciation of the pursuit of knowledge that enables them to strive toward the ideal of an educated person.