Overview

Key Features

As defined by the Media Studies Program, “media” includes all forms of representational media (oral/aural, written, visual), mass media (print, television, radio, film), new media (digital multimedia, the Internet, networked media), their associated technologies, and the social and cultural institutions that enable them and are defined by them.

The Media Studies program from Vassar College emphasizes several interrelated approaches to the study of media: multidisciplinary perspectives derived from the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences; the historical study of various forms of communication and the representation of knowledge; theoretical and critical investigation of how media shape our understandings of reality, and the dynamic interrelationship of media industries, cultural texts, communications technologies, policies, and publics; examination of global, as well as non-Western, indigenous, and oppositional media forms and practices; and practical work in media production and the use of media technologies.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Approaches to Media Studies

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Process, Prose, Pedagogy

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American Television History

Chinese Popular Culture

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-31 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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100

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Poughkeepsie, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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General requirements

Common Application
$65 application fee or a fee waiver
School Report with the Counselor Recommendation and High School Transcript: To be completed and sent by your school counselor.
A Teacher Evaluation
Mid-year Report: Your school counselor or another school official must submit your mid-year grades to us. Early Decision applicants must submit a fall progress report and will be asked to provide their first-term grades as soon as they become available.
If English is neither your first language nor the primary language of instruction in secondary schools you have attended for the last three years.

Tuition Fees

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73275 USD / year

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73275 USD / year

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Domestic

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In-State

73275 USD / year

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Living costs

Poughkeepsie

United States

1138 - 2480 USD / month

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Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

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Language

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Credits

Delivered

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Academic requirements

English requirements

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Tuition Fees

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