USF’s Department of Media Studies offers students a liberal arts-based program in media analysis and media production. Combining theory and practice, students learn how to analyze, deconstruct, and critique media texts and institutions and how to create, share, and collaborate using various forms of media. This program of study, located in multicultural and media-rich San Francisco, provides students with dynamic opportunities to study and create media.
Besides classroom settings, students develop their media production skills in the media lab, and in for-credit internships or voluntary work at the student newspaper the San Francisco Foghorn, the student-run television station USFtv, and the University's award-winning radio station KUSF. Further, students earn course credit for media internships in the surrounding Bay Area, one of the country's largest and most creative mainstream and alternative media markets. Past and current Media Studies students have interned at local television and radio stations, film production companies and festivals, print and web-based newspapers and magazines, music production companies, social change organizations, and social media firms.
Through internship opportunities, students get real-world experience in the Bay Area.
Students make and share their work in the media studies lab.
Taking photographs helps students understand what goes into media production.
A media studies student interviews singer, songwriter and producer Mike Posner for USFtv.
Students have the opportunity to make thier own films.
Attentive observation is an important skill honed in media studies.
