Media and communication studies encompass a wide range of specialty areas in which students must learn how to channel aesthetics, creativity, and innovation as well as utilize critical skills in order to produce effective communication media.

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the western most point of Eurasia, Europe is usually divided from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.