The Department of Media Studies commenced work in 2008 when the first students of BA degree programme of Media Studies were enrolled to study whereas the MA programme in Communication and Media has been taught in the Department since 2011. Teaching and research in the Department are multidisciplinary and cover a wide variety of topics in the field of communication and media studies such as journalism studies, philosophy, media economy, political science, anthropology, sociology, psychology, semiotics, linguistics, gender studies, literary studies, media literacy studies, and other fields and academic specialisms. The members of the Department are committed to the high quality of their academic work and to ways in which that academic work feeds directly into undergraduate and graduate teaching thus inspiring a new generation of media workers, experts, and thinkers. Our aim is to offer both basic and applied teaching experiences in which theory and practice, history and actuality, everyday media practice and media scholarship are combined in an intellectually reflexive manner. A diversity of methods are used for teaching, research, and analysis and a diversity of courses covering different needs for work in media, with media or about media are offered within the Department.

The Department of Media studies has several lecturers six of which are fully employed in the Department, while others are external collaborators, coming from other departments of the Faculty of Humanities, some from other faculties of the University of Primorska, and some from various media institutions in Slovenia. All those who teach in the Department have a high degree of excellence in scholarship in their fields and subfields of expertise covering teaching, research, and academic publication.

By the very structure of its two study programmes, the Department of Media Studies embodies open-mindedness, dialogue, pluralism, and academic diversity as the best guarantees for obtaining relevant knowledge and competencies in the field of communication and media studies at both the BA and MA level of study.

The Department of Media Studies implements the 1st and 2nd degree study program. The department educates and trains for:

• work in the media (we develop various knowledge and skills): journalism, creative writing, professional writing, text editing, communication skills
• working with the media (we connect different social systems): public relations, media marketing, advertising, consulting in the field of communication services
• work on the media (we expand horizons and strengthen critical thinking about the media): media analytics, media research, reflection on media practices

How we conduct the study:

• lectures (presentation of transparent theory and in-depth practical knowledge)
• seminars (connecting theory and practice, past and present, generality and concreteness)
• exercises (strengthening understanding and developing skills)
• study practice (practical training in media houses)
• field research work (participation in research and projects)
• professional excursions and field visits
• selected institutions, film festivals, exhibitions, performances…
• visiting lecturers