The Global Media & Digital Studies program is a new field of inquiry that examines the cultural, political and aesthetic impact of media and digital technologies. GMDS provides students with the theoretical and ethical frameworks, as well as the practical tools, to analyze the highly digitalized and mediated national and global cultures that surround us today; students will interconnect theory and practice, balancing critical analysis with experiential learning, including media production. The program prepares students for graduate work and careers in teaching, art, entertainment, digital media, advertising, entrepreneurship, media arts, the non-profit sector, public service, and other fields.
Students in Global Media and Digital Studies at Wooster can choose three paths on which to further focus their work:
Professor of Communication Studies; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Global Media & Digital Studies; Liaison to Digital Visual Storytelling Pathway (on leave 2022-23 academic year)
Academic Administrative Coordinator of Chinese Studies, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, English, French & Francophone, German, Global Media & Digital Studies/Film, Russian, Spanish, and CoursEval/EvaluationKIT/Course Evaluations & Surveys (CE&S)
Virginia Myers Professor of English; Department Chair of English (Fall 2022); Dept. Chair of Global Media & Digital Studies ; Co-Liaison to Digital and Visual Storytelling Pathway
Assistant Professor Global Media & Digital Studies; Communication Studies (On Leave Spring 2023)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Communication Studies and Global Media & Digital Studies
Mentoring is an important and personal topic for Ahmet Atay, professor of global media and digital studies, communication studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality […]
Major: Global Media & Digital Studies Class Year: 2024 Organization: Crossroads4Kids As a Camp Counsellor at Camp Wing, I will be in charge of […]
Mark Bergen ’07, a technology reporter for Bloomberg News, published Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, the first book to […]
Mudiwa Mungoshi ’24, a global media & digital studies major at The College of Wooster spent their summer working with kids at Crossroads4kids. Largely […]
Students will complete ten courses for the major (a total that includes both junior and senior Independent Study).
The major consists of ten courses and is designed to be flexible so that students can build a program of study that integrates their individual interests with career goals, and so that the core course requirements can be satisfied via a flexible menu of options. At the same time, a core curriculum will ensure that majors share a common conceptual framework. All majors will take the same introductory course, a core sequence, and the same research methods course; between these bookends, each pathway will develop a distinct trajectory that nonetheless builds on interdisciplinary connections both within and beyond the major.
Global Media (prerequisite for these courses: GMDS 110: Introduction to GMDS)
Film Studies (prerequisite for these courses: GMDS 120: Introduction to Film Studies)
Digital Studies (no prerequisites)
Media/Film/Digital Production and Writing (no prerequisites)
When students declare a Global Media and Digital Studies minor, they will be guided through the process of mapping a path through the curriculum; pathway templates will assist students in shaping a cohesive curricular story that speaks to their academic and professional goals. Each pathway provides a core set of requirements for the students, to ensure coherence and structure, while allowing flexibility in choosing among options in both core and elective courses in their concentration areas.
All students at The College of Wooster complete independent study on a topic of their choice under the guidance of a faculty mentor.
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Name: Luke Pritchard Major: Statistical & Data Sciences Minor: Global Media and Digital Studies Advisor: Dr. Moses Luri, Dr. Jillian Morrison (second reader) This paper investigates the Formula […]
Name: Lily Barnett Major: Communication Studies Minor: Global Media and Digital Studies Advisors: Dr. Ahmet Atay and Dr. Nii Nikoi The purpose of this project is to conduct […]
Name: Jack Williams Major: Communication Studies Minors: Music and Global Media & Digital Studies Advisors: Dr. Oscar Mejia and Dr. Ahmet Atay The character of Sweeney Todd has […]
Name: Elijah Miller Major: Communication Studies Minor: Global Media and Digital Studies Advisor: Ahmet Atay Second Reader: Nii Nikoi In this project, I explored […]
Global Media and Digital Studies prepares students for graduate work and careers in teaching, art, entertainment, digital media, advertising, entrepreneurship, media arts, the non-profit sector, public service, and other fields.
Mark Bergen ’07, a technology reporter for Bloomberg News, published Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, the first book to […]