Media and Culture
The Bachelor’s programme in Media and Culture puts the rapidly changing global media landscape centre stage and trains students to position themselves more critically within it, preparing them for careers in the media, at cultural institutions, and in academia. The programme invites you to develop a more critical engagement with media by teaching you about the history and theory of film, television, and cross-media culture.
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Find out in 5 minutes what the Media and Culture programme is about and why you should study it at the University of Amsterdam.
Is Media and Culture right for you?
- You are interested in the rapidly changing global media landscape and how media shapes our experiences of the world.
- You like to study how stories or facts are presented and disseminated by media, whose interests they serve and what worlds they create.
- You want to learn how media objects are created, positioned and used in the world, as well as beginning to create and use them yourself.
- You are keen to be part of an international classroom of 500 first-year students.
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- Degree programme
- BA Media and Culture (Media en cultuur)
- Type
- Regular study programme
- Mode
- Full-time
- Credits
- 180 ECTS, 36 months
- Language of instruction
- English
- Starts in
- September
- RIO code
- 50906
- Location
- University Quarter