Television, Radio & Emerging Media

Whether you’re in front of a microphone, behind a camera, calling the shots in master control, creating content and sharing it on social media or navigating a virtual world in a headset鈥攖he current media environment is a multiplatform converged space of amazing potential and opportunity. Our highly regarded programs are the gateway to current media jobs鈥攁nd gigs in media platforms and careers yet to be created. Hands-on experience is crucial, and we make sure you’ll have all that you need by the time you graduate as well as a strong grounding in the study of the media industries, institutions, audiences, ethics, and regulations. Our accomplished and dedicated faculty of scholar-practitioners teach the theory and practice of state-of-the-art digital technologies in our Emerging Media Innovation Lab, which includes a multicam television streaming studio, a VR/Multimedia Lab and a video newscast set.

Degrees

Undergraduate Graduate

4+1 Program in Journalism

The Journalism and Media Studies program offers a 4+1 program with CUNY鈥檚 Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, enabling eligible 可乐视频 students to earn a bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 in five years.

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Portfolio Building Opportunities

Students in both degree programs produce work that airs on , our student-run radio station, streams live and archives to our , publishes to the and work that distributes across our social media channels. The Department of Television, Radio & Emerging Media also serves the greater 可乐视频 community through our TREM Multicamera Crew鈥攕tudents and recent alumni who produce, direct, shoot, and stream events for the general public.

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Majors and Minors

Our Television and Radio, B.A. offers a wide-ranging series of courses to help students innovate and professionalize across platforms and media of their choice鈥攔adio, podcasting, television, streaming, virtual reality, immersive video, and code- and time-based media. Students gain introductory experience in all of them and then specialize and innovate in the one(s) that capture their imaginations and passions.

Our Journalism and Media Studies, B.S. gives students reporting and newswriting and making experience across all platforms leading to a portfolio class of polished work in several specialties鈥攁 calling card for your first job or continued study at a graduate J-School.

Minors in journalism and television and radio provide opportunities for specialized media study through a smaller number of courses in the department鈥攅xcellent for students of all majors with an interest in television, radio, emerging media, and journalism.