College of Liberal Arts
Curricula in Telecommunication Media Studies
Telecommunication Media Studies focuses on media industries, technologies, and communication systems in cultural and historical contexts, their audience processes and effects, and social implications of the media. The major allows students to combine courses in Communication with Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Information and Operations Management, and other departments. The BA and BS are both available.
The Telecommunication Media Studies major provides students with tools for understanding the media and their roles in social life theoretically, historically and critically. The degree allows students to choose a broadly based communication and media studies major or a more specialized study of telecommunication and information systems. The BA is a more flexible, liberal arts oriented degree; the BS is more directed and requires courses in Engineering Technology and Computer Science or Information and Operations Management. Students in both the BA and BS can choose Communication courses that address media industries, law and policy, technology and society, media audiences, processes, and effects, and the theory, history, and criticism of media, culture, and communication.
A degree in Telecommunication Media Studies may be useful in a broad variety of careers, from media and telecommunication industries, through communication-related positions in business, government, or non-profit organizations, to higher education. The curriculum is designed to educate citizens for a productive future in a changing world. Our students may become industry leaders, government regulators, spokespeople, politicians, writers, artists, activists, and informed citizens.