Welcome to the Media Studies Department at the University of San Francisco. The following information should help you get acquainted with our program. We have included a summary of the course requirements for our Major and Minor, as well as information about our field, our faculty and our students. If you have further questions or concerns, don't hesitate to call us at the numbers listed on our contact page .
Media are critically important in our lives.
We learn about other countries and cultures around the world from movies, newspapers and the Internet. It is essential, then, that we understand how media institutions and media images work so that we can become critical and discriminating producers and consumers of media. The Department of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco offers a liberal arts based program in Media Studies that is a unique blend of theory and practice. The program provides critical and cultural analysis of media texts and institutions in conjunction with a hands-on production sequence in audio and video. Students build their production skills as they also learn to analyze and deconstruct media images and to consider the influence of media on individuals and on society.