Bachelor's in Media Arts & Culture

Media Arts & Culture is a Bachelor program taught at Occidental College, USA. Intake: Fall, Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (4 years) options.

Media Arts & Culture at Occidental College brings together film and media theory with hands-on production. Students study how visual and digital media shape culture, politics, and identity, with coursework that spans media history, theory, and production. They work across forms including fiction, documentary, experimental video, animation, television, social media, video games, video essays, participatory media, AR/VR, and digital and motion design.

Students can shape their studies around two areas of focus: Critical Media and Media Production. Critical Media includes film and media history, visual and digital culture, and emerging forms such as video essays and GIS-based projects. Media Production emphasizes hands-on production techniques across fiction, documentary, experimental, and interactive forms, integrating theory with creative practice.

The program includes internships and collaborative projects that connect creative practice to real-world experience in film, television, and digital industries. In the final year, students complete a senior comps project that brings together creative and critical work, which may include scholarly essays, short films, animations, video installations, screenplays, or interactive works.

Modules

• Introduction to Digital Design
• Introduction to Visual & Critical Studies
• Artificial Intelligence Film & Media Creation
• Creating & Writing TV/Streaming Series
• The Politics & Poetics of Documentary
• Animation Fundamentals
• Transnational Cinemas: Borders, Walls, Difference
• Media Activism through Participatory Video
• The Video Essay

The minimum requirements for admission in Media Arts & Culture at Occidental College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Occidental College.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Occidental College as pre-requiste for admission in Media Arts & Culture.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.oxy.edu/academics/areas-study/media-arts-culture

• Junior Editor, Paramount+
• Field Producer, Casting Agent
• Director of Entertainment Marketing, Riot Games
• Director, Writer, Producer, Actor

80 fully funded scholarships are listed for USA. See USA scholarships.