Department Mission

With the contribution of new communication technologies, today, radio, television and film have all converged to an unprecedented degree.

Nowadays, sound, vision, and script can easily be added to each other in the same medium. The same news can be ready to be used in different channels with few changes. We are living in the medium of a diverse and overlapping global media environment, whose area of influence is extended. This raises our expectations from the communication professionals both in terms of their technical skills and their social responsibility. With this in mind, the Department of Radio Television and Film at Eastern Mediterranean University aims to graduate students who will not only be able to skillfully use up-to-date media technologies, but will also have the intellectual and critical perspective to specify the content to be communicated through the use of these technologies. Therefore, we are planning to have socially and ethically responsible graduates, who are knowledgeable and who can carefully use the technologies of their field.

Distinguishing Attributes

Students will have a wider perspective of the world and expand their horizons in this Department. Additionally, students will take responsibility in production and complete all stages of a project by themselves. With these projects, they will join international level competitions, festivals and conferences and have the chance to exhibit their works and possibly win awards. So far there have been many student-produced projects that have earned the right to be exhibited and won awards at international organizations such as the Aydin Dogan Young Communicators' Award, International Istanbul 1001 Documentary Film Festival, Rastgele International Fishermen and Sea Documentary Festival, Altin Safran Documentary Film Festival, Kemer International Underwater Days and Ivy Film Festival.

Department Facilities

The Department of Radio-Television and Film offers students a wide prospect of production and transmission opportunities in its own radio and TV studios. Among them, Radio EMU, which is on-air non-stop at 106.5Mhz and EMU-TV, broadcasts continuously allowing students to gain practical knowledge and work experience. Students can work at the Media Center , and learn the production process of material in different formats. Additionally, the Department offers students an opportunity of experiencing and learning the techniques of underwater photography and videotaping at the Underwater Photography and Video Research Center after they complete their basic diving training.

Quality of Graduates

Those students who graduate from the Department of Radio-Television and Film Studies will be equipped with the theoretical and practical knowledge of the industry from production to execution. Therefore, students will be able to take part in every stage of a project and be able to bring the theory into application. Students will have grasped the profession's social, economical, ethical, and legal aspects by the time of graduation. Additionally, students will have the privilege to be taught in English medium of instruction as English is accepted as the universal language in this field and will also be exposed to a very rich, multi-cultural academic environment.

Job Opportunities

Graduates of the Department can work not only at the national and private radio/television corporations, in private production companies, but also in state broadcasting corporations. They can work as a correspondent, journalist, producer, speaker, editor, script-writer, cameraman, sound and light specialist, video and editing operator, DJ and art director. What is more, they can find jobs in the on-line newspapers, state organs and in the publishing, broadcasting units of the state or civil non-profit organizations.