Media, Journalism and Digital Cultures at the University of Toronto Scarborough

Learn the inner workings of today’s rapidly changing media landscape and tailor your studies around your interests in our customizable program. You’ll hone your media literacy skills and critically evaluate the limits and opportunities of modern media institutions and information technologies in our hands-on courses. Explore media and journalism through multiple perspectives — from the public to the private, on local and global scales.  

Choose from our two streams: 

  • Media Studies stream: Gain the theoretical and critical thinking tools to dissect what it means to live in our media-focused culture at local, regional and global scales. You’ll evaluate media, analyze its underlying ideologies, and understand its cultural, political, economic, and social implications. Our courses will take you through the history of media and technology in different cultures, and you’ll thoroughly explore how media form and shape knowledge and meaning, and how media industries create, manage, and share information. 
  • Journalism Studies stream: You’ll study and conduct research in a curriculum that emphasizes scholarly, conceptual understandings of journalism, including how journalism functions as an agent of change, its relationship to new technologies, and how cultures of information sharing are evolving. You’ll get the tools to comprehend, navigate, and adapt to today’s complicated media environment, whether as a journalist, policy advocate or informed citizen. This stream is for you if you’re interested in studying media while focusing on journalism and the news media industry, as well as journalism’s form, function, and meaning in a global and democratic society. 
Department
Arts, Culture & Media
Degree offered
Honours Bachelor of Arts
Program options
Major
Enriched learning
Sample courses
  • Political Economy of Media
  • Media, Identities and Politics
  • Critical Journalism
Admissions
Visual & Performing Arts, Arts Management, and Media
Department
Arts, Culture & Media
Degree offered
Honours Bachelor of Arts
Program Options
Major
Combined degree options
Enriched Learning
Sample courses
  • Political Economy of Media
  • Media, Identities and Politics
  • Critical Journalism