Welcome to Media Studies at VIU
Media Studies at VIU combines critical analysis of media with technical and creative skills. The 4-year degree puts equal emphasis on the meaning of media and how you can make media that is meaningful to you.
Our experiences of these media in our homes and businesses equip us to design media that engages, empowers, disrupts, and informs. You can explore film and video or music and audio for radio, podcast, web, social media, or games.
Our degree stresses a critical understanding of the economic, social, historical, and contextual landscape in which media is operating and helps you deliver the hard skills required for hands-on careers and entrepreneurism in the field. These components are equally essential and mutually reinforcing.
Spring 2026 Offerings
- Online Asynchronous MEDI 165 Introduction to Game Studies: Karen Skardzius (former MEDI 265)
Monday
- 11:30-2:30 MEDI 110 Introduction to Media Production: Richard Boyce (former DIGI 110)
- 2:30-5:30 MEDI 366 Foundations of Game Design: Karen Skardzius (former DIGI 366)
Tuesday
- 11:30-2:30 MEDI 110 Introduction to Media Production: Richard Boyce (former DIGI 110)
Wednesday
- 8:30-11:30 MEDI 380 Video Production 2: Richard Boyce (former DIGI 380)
- 11:30-2:30 MEDI 302 Making the News: Joy Gugeler
- 2:30-5:30 MEDI 300 Research Methods: Karen Skardzius
Thursday
- 11:30-2:30 MEDI 205 Promotion, Persuasion, Propaganda: Deb Pentecost
- 2:30-5:30 MEDI 100 Introduction to Media Studies and Communication: Karen Skardzius
- 5:30-8:30 MEDI 495 Senior Media Studies Project: Deb Pentecost (former DIGI 496)
Friday
- 1:00-4:00 MEDI 401 Public Relations, Advocacy, and the Media: Deb Pentecost
