• MA Degree Requirements
• PhD Degree Requirements
• Curriculum

Program Description
Northwestern's Doctoral program in Media, Technology, and Society (MTS) provides a graduate environment for innovative research in the study of film, television, digital media and other communications technologies. Interdisciplinary in approach, the program allows students great autonomy within both MTS and the University at large to design individual programs of study. Drawing on the University's diverse resources and prestigious faculty, the program encourages research in historical, contemporary, and emerging media that challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries and assumptions.

The MTS program has three tracks that allow students to pursue a variety of specialized topics in film and media studies.

• Screen Cultures
• Industry and Institutions
• Technology and Social Behavior

MTS gathers faculty and students interested in issues of cultural production, history and theory in relation to film, television, digital media, and other communications technologies. Students engage issues in film and media culture through the diverse literatures of critical theory, cultural studies, aesthetics, textual analysis, institutional and industrial history, gender theory, visual culture studies, sociology, and other traditions relevant to the interpretive analysis of film and media.

Across all three tracks, the MTS program is committed to facilitating research in both national and global media and in contributing important scholarship within diverse academic, professional, and political contexts.

Faculty