
Offering courses relating to a wide array of moving-image media, from film and television to all electronic media sources.
Learn how to make media and develop the tools necessary to think more critically about what you see and hear in your daily life.
Exploring, analyzing, and creating content from both sides of the screens.
Why Media Studies?
Majors have opportunities to study and produce narrative and documentary film, social advocacy and interdisciplinary media productions, fictional and non-fictional television, and video journalism.
Students can craft their own program of study, drawing from courses on every aspect of film, video, and digital media production; media and screenwriting; media theory, history, and criticism; and news reporting and analysis.
How I Found My Career
Abby Lowry, MST Major
Abby found a love for creative marketing and content creation as a media studies major at UNCG. Follow her for a day in the life of a marketing assistant and aspiring agency owner.
Choose Your Path
Upcoming EVENTS

December 11, 2025
Minerva Awards — Media Studies Minerva Media Festival FALL 2025
The Minerva Media Festival is a significant event that celebrates the creative work of Media Studies students at UNCG. It showcases …
November 11, 2025
Greensboro Residency for Original Works
Artists-in-Residence: Jennida Chase and Hassan Pitts Creative Greensboro will welcome filmmakers Jennida Chase and Hassan Pitts, kno…
November 11, 2025
Media Studies Professors Screen Their Films at the Major Film Festivals
Philp Page, a lecturer in the Media Studies Department at UNCG, produced, funded, and filmed the short fiction film, “Sobriety” …