The B.A. in Media with a concentration in Media Science is offered through The Media School in the College of Arts and Sciences. In pursuing the degree, you learn how to observe, ask questions, and test answers concerning the ways in which mediated messages make meaning in any platform -- from tweets to television to big budget films. Your professors in this concentration pursue various forms of media science research through controlled experiments, surveys, interviews, focus groups, and other methods. In classwork, you learn both how to investigate and understand the relationship of media to cognition, gender, social class, violence, sexuality, family, memory, humor, and other facets of our lives. As a student in Media Science, you master critical thinking and investigative skills, preparing you to enter a variety of careers. This concentration can give you the necessary skills to work in corporate or other environments creating content, analyzing the reception of media messages, and conducting media research.