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Communication and Media Studies, BA

Location
  • New York City
Associated College
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Other Study Options
Communication Studies (Minor)
Digital Media Studies (Minor)
Journalism and Digital Storytelling (Minor)

Be a Changemaker

Communication and Media Studies brings together dynamic fields of public communication and mass media in the city where these elements live. By enrolling in this program, you will explore professional communications and media industries that exist at the cross section of leadership, creativity, and social change, while learning to hone advanced skillsets in self-expression. From the interpersonal to the digital, social media to public advocacy, journalism to organizational communication, the Communication and Media Studies degree readies this next generation to be tomorrow’s changemakers.

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Develop Critical and Creative Thinking Skills

  • Effectively analyze and produce various forms of communication and media.
  • Think critically about communication and media technologies in their social, cultural, and global forms in New York City’s media hub where you will find internships and hands-on learning opportunities.
  • Understand the contexts in which communication and media are produced, delivered, and distributed.

Prepare for the careers of tomorrow today, by learning to maximize critical and creative thinking and effective, socially responsible communication. The diversity of our curriculum allows students to explore subjects including popular culture, advertising and consumer culture, political communication, intercultural communication, and social media.

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Communication and Media Studies majors become changemakers, using effective communication and media to face social and cultural challenges and injustices. Our majors find, create, critique, produce, amplify, and deliver the stories that make a difference.

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Ready to combine your academic experience with all that New York City has to offer? Students have successfully landed prestigious internships in social media, music, television, publishing, fashion, radio, public relations, marketing, arts and entertainment management, government, and nonprofit organizations. Communication and Media Studies majors are active in the Pace Press, POP TV, and WPUB.

"At Pace I learned that the significance of media is not only its ability to influence how you view the world but its ability to influence how you view yourself. It was this realization that made me want to be a part of the kind of storytelling that could shift the way people view themselves and the larger communities around them." —Arissa Chatman ’15, Associate Producer, Programming and Development for Food Network and Cooking Channel

Choose Your Career

Communication and Media Studies majors choose careers in social media, television, music, marketing, publishing, law, politics, and public communication.

Where Graduates are Employed

  • American Express
  • Captiv8
  • Cooking Channel/Food Network
  • Daily Mail TV
  • Disney
  • Focus Features
  • Glamour Magazine
  • Goldman Sachs
  • HBOMax
  • iHeartMedia
  • International Legal Foundation
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • KBLX San Francisco
  • Meta
  • Nasdaq
  • NBC Sports
  • NBCUniversal
  • Ocean X
  • the Office of Vice President Kamala Harris
  • SiriusXM Radio
  • St. Jude Research Hospital
  • Spotify
  • STARZ
  • Universal Pictures
  • Vox
  • Warner Music Group
  • YSL Beauty