Communication Studies Media and Cultural Studies - Florida Atlantic University

Communication Studies Media and Cultural Studies from Florida Atlantic University is a Campus Bachelor Media Studies degree that prepares you for a Communications career. The Media and Cultural Studies sequence emphasizes the roles that media and other cultural producers, technologies, texts, practices, and receivers play in the processes of construction, maintenance, and change in our information-based, culturally diverse society. It provides students with an interdisciplinary, liberal arts based curriculum that explores the pervasive cultural , political, economic, and behavioral influences these phenomena have in our lives at the individual, group, institutional, and societal levels. Courses examine the history of various elements of media and culture, the organizations that create media and other cultural texts, the political regulation of these organizations, the symbolic nature of and meanings created by those texts, the participation of audiences and other cultural receivers, the social and political contexts in which these interrelate, and the impact of media and other culture on receivers, institutions, and society as a whole. The sequence, including the flexible elective options, can be individually crafted to prepare students for graduate study and academic careers in these or related fields and/or in a more pragmatic direction suitable for such professions as media writing, media programming, media consulting, or media/cultural analysis and criticism. View more details on Florida Atlantic University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Media Studies courses.