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Central's Media Studies major offers a balanced curriculum that integrates theory and practice. Students learn theoretical and critical approaches to media content, systems, and institutions that cultivate skills in critical thinking, analysis, and writing.
The major also prepares students to create their own media content including films, documentaries, and multimedia packages through traditional and emerging technologies. The curriculum encourages students to cultivate an appreciation for aesthetics and artistry in media production.
Program Features
- Media Studies offers three concentrations: Digital Filmmaking and TV Production; Media Analysis; and Multimedia Production and New Technologies
- Learn how to produce content in a studio and in the field
- Study abroad in places such as Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam
- Intern at a production studio
- Minor in Media Studies is also available
- Financial aid and scholarships available
- Free on-campus child care available
Program Options
Students pursuing film production conceive ideas, develop scripts and explore fictional/nonfictional characters through the production process. From originally scripted, short filmmaking to real-life personal portraits, students and graduates work in the entertainment industry, gain acceptance to graduate programs, compete in festivals, produce media campaigns and commercials, and obtain the foundations to create compelling work. Students pursuing television production develop skills to shoot video in the field and in the studio along with pre- and post-production work.
This concentration is designed for students who wish to focus primarily upon the critical, aesthetic and theoretical foundations of media and its institutions. Students learn theoretical and critical approaches to media content, systems, and institutions that cultivate skills in critical thinking, analysis, and writing.
This concentration aims to train students to reach a theoretical understanding of how digital technologies have impacted the communication contexts (interpersonal, professional, mass communication). Students acquire the practical skills to apply technologies in desktop publishing, digital photography, web publishing, and multimedia production. Students become total communicators who can reach audiences across media platforms.