Workforce success
The courses required for graduation within this major equip graduates to:
- Analyze media
- Describe how, and with what effects, media engage audiences
- Situate contemporary media production in a global context
- Think critically
- Write persuasively and edit effectively
- Read and listen actively
- Design and conduct independent research programs
- Evaluate ideas and evidence
- Collaborate effectively in teams and small groups
Career options by sector
As a liberal arts degree, Film and Media Studies prepares students for lifelong learning, social engagement and a wide array of careers, some of which will require additional credentials. These are a few examples.
- Casting director
- Entertainment lawyer
- Freelance writer
- Producer
- Publicist
- Production assistant
- Screenwriter
- Archivist
- Editorial assistant
- Community outreach coordinator
- Information specialist
- Media consultant /coordinator
- Teacher /media educator
- Professor
- Researcher
- Social media strategist
- Web content producer
- Writer/copywriter