从印刷，摄影，电影，广播和广播电视到互动和社交媒体，大众媒体形式正在塑造着全球历史和个人日常生活的进程。数字文化的新兴平台和应用在当代社会和文化的转型中起着关键作用。媒体研究专业教给学生关于这些快速变化的技术，活动和系统的运作方式和含义以及它们在全球范围内产生的多种文化影响的系统思考。媒体研究专业和辅修专业的学生将：与媒体如何塑造社会以及如何将其用于广泛的社会影响有关，通过学习如何导航，过滤和评估中介的信息和图像来培养敬业公民的观点，并考虑创意，艺术，技术和行业在本地，国家和国际/全球范围内的媒体形式，内
Mass media forms, from print, photography, film, radio and broadcast television to interactive and social media are shaping the course of global history as well as the daily routines of individual lives. New and emerging platforms and applications of digital culture play key roles in the transformations underway in contemporary society and culture. The major in Media Studies teaches students to think systematically about the workings and meanings of these rapidly changing technologies, activities and systems and their manifold cultural impacts across the globe. Students majoring and minoring in Media Studies will: engage with ideas relating to how media shape society and how they can be used for broad societal impact, cultivate a perspective of engaged citizenship by learning how to navigate, filter, and evaluate mediated information and imagery, and consider media forms, content, reception and production in local, national and international/global contexts of creativity, art, technology, and industry. Analyze the forms and functions of media, understanding them in relation to histories and theories of aesthetics, cultural production, genre, narrative, and communications.