Media Studies

Address: 211 Brown Building
Phone: 336.334.4146
Web site: www.uncg.edu/mst

Majors & Concentrations

• Media Studies (BA) U134

The Media Studies major is designed to allow students to choose from careers in a number of media specialties. Following completion of a core of classes, students may choose from a wide variety of courses allowing students to explore different media fields. Depending on the courses selected, majors may choose to train toward careers in film or television production, broadcast journalism, writing for television or motion pictures, radio/television management, or post-graduate work.

Students from other majors may choose a minor in Film and Television Studies choosing from a wide range of studies topics, or the Radio minor, which provides more focused course options on the radio industry.

What's unique about Media Studies at UNCG?

• Houses television studio, nonlinear editing facilities, and audio production studio
• Sponsors the Carolina Film and Video Festival, an international juried competition for independent and student artists every spring
• Campus student-operated radio station WUAG and campus cable TV channel, Spartan TV

Student Opportunities

• Varied opportunities and locations for students to do internships in radio-television-film and allied fields, such as CNN Atlanta, local motion picture shoots, local radio and television stations, etc.
• Many of our majors take advantage of UNCG's strong International Studies program and study abroad. Our students have studied in locations such as Great Britain, Australia, Japan, and Costa Rica, among others.

Graduates/Careers

Here are some examples of jobs held by our alumni:

• Writer, Saturday Night Live
• Writer, Nurse Jackie
• Production Coordinator, Dreamworks Animation
• Producer, The Today Show
• President and CEO, KQED, San Francisco, CA
• Associate Producer, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading
• Supervising Producer, Ice Road Trucker

Graduates are employed throughout the United States in various capacities in film and television in news, production, anchoring and reporting, technicians, writers, and Internet designers.

Some students opt to continue their education in established graduate programs across the country such as UCLA, USC, Chapman, Loyola-Marymount, and Chicago Institute for the Arts.

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