AV天堂

Learn the people skills of media, communication and culture. 

• credential in Media Studies with a certificate that requires only 10.5 units of study to enrich and expand your career paths
• take an accessible, entry-level course on the foundations of media analysis in the 21st century
• immerse yourself in studies of games, sound and the book
• develop practical skills in community-based media and communication

Our 2025-26 courses

We are offering four Media Studies courses in 2025-26. You do not need to be actively registered in our certificate program to take these courses. 

• Media Studies 200, "Media in the 21st Century" (taught by Jentery Sayers): an introduction to media studies that surveys the cultural and material roles media play around the world, with an emphasis on building a common vocabulary for studying media (prerequisite: academic writing requirement satisfied)
• Media Studies 300, "Critical Media Practice" (taught by Tri Phuong): a study of how audio, images, video, and text are produced around the world today, with an emphasis on the values of media practice and applying such knowledge to critical, cultural and community-based work (prerequisite: MDIA 200 and academic writing requirement satisfied)
• Media Studies 350, "Cultures of the Book" (taught by ): surveys approaches to the book around the world, from oral traditions, clay tablets, and the codex to print, illustrated books, and zines, with an emphasis on experiential learning in UVic's Farallon Book Arts Lab (prerequisite: academic writing requirement satisfied)
• Media Studies 360, "Game Studies" (taught by Sara Humphreys and Jentery Sayers): surveys approaches to games around the world, from board and tabletop games to video games and esports (prerequisite: academic writing requirement satisfied)
• Media Studies 490, "Directed Studies": a supervised study in an area of Media Studies to be determined by the student and the instructor

News

• Friday, May 2nd: Congratulations to our 2024-25 MDIA grads! You are the second group of students to receive UVic's Media Studies certificate.
• Thursday, April 3rd: Media Studies 300 is screening five video essays produced by students this term. We'd love to see you there: . Many thanks to Pierre-Luc Landry for organizing , teaching MDIA 300 this term, and supporting our students in this way. 
• Thursday, March 20th: Join us in person at 1pm for Dr. Bo Ruberg's talk,
• Thursday, February 27th: Join us online at 1pm for Dr. Kishonna L. Gray's 2024-25 Lansdowne Media Studies lecture on  

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