Welcome to the NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
As founders in the field of media studies, MCC first pioneered and now shapes the critical study of media, culture and technology. It’s nothing less than a future-oriented liberal arts education for a new era.
Studying media here allows you to connect and understand our changing world. In digital media, you can study AI, assistive technologies and video games, as well as learn how to code and make video. In visual culture, study Black landscape, art and mass incarceration, advertising, and the built environment. In global media, study migration, social movements, Chinese internet governance, and Latino media.
Learn how to use media as a critical practice in our dynamic Media Lab. Use New York City as a classroom and visit newsrooms, independent media startups, museums and monuments. Challenge yourself with innovative new approaches like science and technology studies, or disability studies.
It’s all held together by our focus on critical interpretation and historical context, taught by our award-winning faculty whose media expertise spans the globe.
Degrees
Bachelor of Science
Media, Culture, and Communication
The media studies BS engages the history, present, and future of global media, offering significant opportunities to study media abroad in international contexts.
Master of Arts
Media, Culture, and Communication
The media studies MA trains agile researchers of a shifting global media landscape.
Doctor of Philosophy
Media, Culture, and Communication
The interdisciplinary media studies doctorate foregrounds a diverse array of research methods and theoretical frameworks.
Master of Arts /
Master of Science
Media, Culture and Global Cities
Dual Degree
This dual degree graduate program with the London School of Economics (LSE) is designed for media studies students who want to critically engage with how media shapes and is shaped by two global media capitals: London and New York.
Bachelor of Science
Global Public Health / Media, Culture, and Communication
As future public health practitioners, Global Public Health/Media, Culture, and Communication majors/co-majors develop an interdisciplinary understanding of the sociological, political, and cultural intersections of global media and health policy.
Minor
Disability Studies
This interdisciplinary undergraduate minor introduces students to the historical, social, and legal circumstances that shape the experience of disability.
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