At Skidmore, we see media and film not just as a potential career path but as a way of thinking, seeing, and knowing — in true liberal arts fashion. Combine critical inquiry with creative practice as you study both the cultural impact and creative possibilities of media with faculty who bring deep knowledge in a wide variety of disciplines.
From film, documentary, and comic books to emerging technologies, social media, and visual culture, you’ll explore new and old media from multiple angles. Media and film studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines how media shape intersecting issues of culture, representation, and power. Drawing on approaches from visual studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and more, students gain new perspectives that complement a wide range of majors.
A minor in media and film studies pairs easily with many of Skidmore’s majors and helps prepare students for work in fields such as film, journalism, arts and culture, and marketing and communications, as well as graduate-level study in these and other related areas.
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Media and film studies at Skidmore combines hands-on filmmaking with fresh ways of exploring film, digital media, and popular culture. A few standout courses:
Through collaboration with MDOCS and access to the DOCLab production and post-production workspace, students can apply their learning to hands-on projects and community partnerships. For Callahan Mainzer ’26, that meant co-creating the documentary “Two Trees,” which explored the history of Skidmore’s relationship with Indigenous communities and helped inspire the planting of a new Tree of Peace on campus.
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