The 128-credit Global Public Health/Media, Culture, and Communication (GPH/MCC) major/co-major trains you to think deeply and broadly about questions at the intersection of cultures, emerging technologies, media ecosystems, and global health.
As a GPH/MCC major, you’ll develop expertise in navigating a complex international media landscape to arrive at innovative solutions to public health challenges.
A required component of all Global Public Health combined majors is a semester studying away at an NYU global site.
Major Requirements
Media, Culture, and Communication core courses survey the field of media studies, while subsequent ‘Framing’ courses offer an overview of a particular sub-discipline within the department’s five Areas of Study. ‘Focus’ courses allow you to explore topics in greater depth.
Areas of Study
Global Communication and Media courses examine global media production, circulation and consumption in relation to citizenship and identity, immigration and diasporas, human rights and social movements, political-economic inequalities, and geopolitics.
Visual Culture and Sound Studies courses focus on the ways that visual and sound media shape everyday life on and offline, especially through politics and power.
Technology and Society courses focus on information and communication technologies and their social, political and ethical implications.
Media Industries and Politics courses examine the political economy of media and information industries, the use of media to shape and mobilize public opinion, social movements, and electoral politics.
Interaction and Experience courses explore how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the material world in various social, cultural, and technological contexts.
Major and Co-Major Electives
Designed to allow you to further tailor your degree, major and co-major electives can be taken in either Media, Culture, and Communication or in Global Public Health.
You must earn a B- or better to use the core course toward the MCC major or minor. You are allowed one unique opportunity to retake a core course during your time in the program. Students receiving below a B- in two or more MCC core courses will have to explore other options for majoring at NYU.
If you have taken the NODEP-UA 9982 Experiential Learning Seminar at the NYU-LA campus, you have an exception to the 6 credit internship maximum in order to complete this required course at the NYU-LA campus. The 2 credit differential from taking the NODEP-UA course can count toward your liberal arts elective requirements, unrestricted electives, or professional electives.
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