The Media Studies department at Queens College boasts world-renowned professors who are experts film and television studies, advertising and marketing, international communications, digital media, and the media arts. Media Studies majors get to create individualized programs in consultation with faculty mentors. New York City plays a major role in QC’s Media Studies program and students who attend events in the five boroughs may earn credits by interning at major corporate and public institutions in the greater New York area.

The Media Studies Department recognizes that today’s media range from traditional print vehicles to digital publications, from professional film and TV to do-it-yourself videos broadcast through social networks. Media Studies covers all of these platforms and educates students in necessary critical skills for anyone entering any profession where information shared and exchanged. QC Media Studies has an undergraduate program that explores media institutions, forms, contents, creative processes, and social effects and a Masters Program that enhances these skills and incorporates advanced learning, activism, and social justice endeavors.

This summer, Prof Jamie Cohen was joined by senior Media Studies student Gwyneth Agbenyo and Dean Simone Yearwood at the 19th Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change in Salzburg Austria. Dr. Cohen gave his talk “Creative Misuse and Combating the Algorithms” and Gwyneth helped produce the “Laal Stadt” section of the Proximity, People, And Power playbook which was part of the Imagining Local Media Futures, Building Democratic Media theme. Queens College Media Studies is now a partner of the Salzburg Academy. 

Gwyneth and Professor Cohen will be talking about their experience on November 10 in Kiely 312 at 12:30pm (free hour) and explaining how you can be part of the 2026 cohort. Subscribe to the Media Studies newsletter to learn more!