Communication - Teachers College At Columbia University

Communication from Teachers College At Columbia University is a Campus Master Media Studies degree that prepares you for a Communications career. This program uses methods of the social sciences, encompassing both qualitative and quantitative approaches to the study of communication and education. It asks in particular how education and other social systems change under the impact of new media. Faculty members and students pursue three broad areas of inquiry, enabling them to: Reflect on the historical effects of media and on the cultural uses of developments such as face-to-face speech, writing, printing, photography, film, radio, television, computers, and networked multimedia; Use anthropological and linguistic methods to study how the diverse forms of communication, literacy, information processing, and cognition condition educational practice; and Explore positive and negative effects of media on social relations and develop strategies for using information and communication technologies to improve conditions of education and life. In the course of completing a degree , the student should expect to attend closely to both technical artifacts and human activity; that is, both to material systems of communication in which technologies are the primary interest and to interpersonal, direct communication dynamics in which unmediated exchanges, face-to-face, are the subject of inquiry. A major theme for continuous reflection should be the diverse ways in which the modes of communication condition the meanings actually, and potentially, communicated-particularly through the wide variety of digital means available to us. View more details on Teachers College at Columbia University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Media Studies courses.