Media
Media shape our daily lives, our society, and virtually every professional field. In the Media course area, you will learn how to act confidently and purposefully in the digital and media world. You acquire journalistic, technical, and artistic skills, produce your own content – for instance in audio, video, or online formats – and gain insight into professional fields like journalism, PR, film, and publishing. In addition, you grapple with topics like fake news, media ethics, and digital responsibility.
Our practice-oriented course formats encourage you to critically analyse and creatively engage with media and to experiment with new forms of expression – as a contribution to a responsible media society.
Moreover, collaborations with the Media Centre or the city magazine chilli give you direct insight into the work of professional editorial departments – and give you an opportunity to transform your own ideas into real projects.
Courses in the 2026 summer semester
Supplement your studies through the acquisition of competences with future relevance: Our optional certificate programme gives you the chance to do just that alongside your degree programme.
You strengthen your abilities in the use of digital tools, data, and technologies – in a critical, creative, and responsible manner.
The certificate programme is open to all students.
Cooperative courses
We cooperate closely with the University Library, the uniCROSS student editorial team at the Media Centre, and the Freiburg city magazine chilli:
The practical modules allow you to collaborate with the uniCROSS student editorial team or at the magazine chilli – das Freiburger Stadtmagazin. In this way, you gain valuable journalistic experience, publish your own media products, which can be very useful as work samples for job applications – and also earn ECTS credits just for your editorial work (2, 4, or 6 credits).
- Media in Practice – Collaboration with the Student Editorial Team of uniCROSS (for more information, see HISinOne: 4173)
- Cross-Media Journalism in Practice – Collaboration on an uniCROSS Project (for more information, see HISinOne: 4141)
- Magazine Journalism in Practice – Editing and Production of Articles for chilli – das Freiburger Stadtmagazin (for more information, see HISinOne: 4050)
The editors-in-chief of uniCROSS and the Media Centre offer you thorough introductions:
- Introduction to Radio Journalism (4 ECTS credits, 4017)
- Fundamentals of Video Journalism (4 ECTS credits, 4164)
- Online Journalism Using the Example of ‘uniCROSS – News and Stories from University of Freiburg Students’ (4 ECTS credits, 4133)
Please consult HISinOne for details – and please note that our programme varies from semester to semester.
Der souveräne Umgang mit digitalen, wissenschaftlichen Informationen und Daten ist nicht nur elementarer Bestandteil eines erfolgThe confident use of digital scientific information and data is not only an elementary part of a successful course of study but also the precondition for living and working in a dynamically changing world. We offer the following course in cooperation with instructors at the University Library:
- Studies 4.0 – Researching and Evaluating Data and Information Scientifically
The module is worth 2 ECTS credits and is generally held in the winter semester.
Please consult HISinOne for details (4184).