about-the-department

Preparing You to Succeed in Your Media-Related Career

Learn to critically analyze the ways in which the media reflects, represents and influences the world. As a media department student, you'll explore media from a communicative, technological, social-cultural and creative-aesthetic perspective. You'll graduate as an effective, ethical and thoughtful civic communicator, storyteller or designer, strategic in your thinking and skilled in creating and using a wide variety of media and digital media platforms.

In concert with the University's mission, you'll nurture your individual talents, harness your innate creativity, inspire passion for innovation, foster analytical and critical thinking, and encourage ethical and professional leadership. Your education will reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the field and the growing synergies between journalism and media innovations while remaining grounded in Catholic values and democratic ideals.

Student Media

You can publish content on a variety of student media channels, including The Duquesne Duke (student newspaper), WDSR (student radio), DSTV (student TV), :Lexicon (literary arts journal), The D.U.Quark (scientific research journal), L'Esprit du Duc (yearbook) and Off the Bluff (Duquesne media-produced magazine).

Digital Experience & Prototyping Lab

Led by Dr.%20William%20Gibbs, our user experience lab gives any media student the opportunity to have hands-on experience with creating and designing forms of interactive media. The lab includes 3D printers, augmented reality and so much more.

"I started with an interest in graphic design and developed a passion for video production. My courses gave me skills in video shooting, editing and storytelling. I was able to use these skills to shoot a documentary titled ‘Pure Thirst, A Tanzania Story,' which is currently in postproduction."

Adam

Accelerated Undergraduate Program

Undergraduate students in the Department of Media can choose to enter an accelerated path to a master of fine arts (M.F.A.) degree.

After your acceptance into the accelerated path, beginning junior year, you can take up to 12 credits of graduate-level courses that will apply to their undergraduate degrees. Once you formally move from undergraduate to graduate status, 12 credits of graduate work will apply toward the 42-credit requirement for the M.F.A. This would leave 30 credits, including a project/thesis course, to successfully complete your M.F.A. degree.