Global Media
Bachelor of Arts
Quick Facts
Top 3%
Online Bachelor's
Program in the Nation
- U.S. News & World Report, 2024
How do various forms of media connect the global community to the challenges of the day, including climate change, poverty, inequality, the pandemic, political discord and record numbers of refugees?
Explore these questions and more alongside faculty who have worked with news media agencies and other organizations around the world. You will have the opportunity to build analytical skills, coupled with conceptual knowledge of real-time and emerging issues like digital inequity, surveillance, censorship and propaganda. Your studies will focus on political, cultural, social and economic influences on global media through a broad selection of courses.
Building a deep professional knowledge of the wide range of influences on media will prepare you to engage with and meet the grand challenges of our time. You will graduate equipped to step into jobs in nonprofit organizations, think tanks, government, politics, intergovernmental agencies and other entities that require sophisticated writing, analytical, verbal, digital and research skills.
Visit the Studies of Global Media website in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
This College of Social and Behavioral Sciences major requires a minor (or double major).
*Residents of some U.S. Territories may not be eligible. Please see our Eligibility & State Authorization page for more information.
The curriculum for this program includes:
Explore how the news media around the world shapes political, social and cultural conversations in societies and encourage governments to be transparent and accountable to citizens.
Explore historical and contemporary perspectives on the concepts of power, globalization, networked societies and diffusion of cultural values through various forms of media and how these factors influence news media reporting, digital ecosystems, discourse and communities around the world.
Explore concepts of disinformation and propaganda in cases around the world. Also covered are the spread of online disinformation, the growing issue of information security in open and closed media ecosystems and ways to verify and authenticate information.
Outcomes
Skills
Earning your Bachelor of Arts in Global Media will build core skills, including:
- Analytical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Cultural understanding
- Decision making
- Intercultural communication
- Media literacy
- Problem solving
- Public speaking
- Research
- Social awareness
- Writing and communication
