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Nt1310 Unit 1 Personal Statement

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I am a third year transferred student at UC Berkeley and am very interested in learning media studies as my major. After attending Media Study 10, I believe studying media would be an ideal direction for me to broad my knowledge and experience My interests in media started when I was teenager as a reporter in my school’s broadcasting club. There, I enjoyed reporting news and information but also had opportunities to understand the influence that the media could have to change our lives as I delivered critical issues. When I came to the U.S., I felt a discernible disjointedness between many different groups of international students, and believed this was because of a deficiency of understanding and communication between different perspectives. Anticipating I could influence others to open up and understand each other through media, I joined CalFocus in 2014, a nation-wide Korean-run press dealing with political, social, and cultural issues regarding international students in …show more content…

When I participated to interview House of Representatives Mike Honda in June 2015, he offered a powerful message in terms of tensions between U.S., Korea, and Japan, and I asked him what advice he would give to students in order to better approach my audiences, which was Korean and American students. I soon appreciated powerful impact of media on general perception, and began to awe at the prevalent impact media would have had in history and pursue further study its impacts. Honda’s initiative and well-rounded perspectives about the same topics influenced my own desire to be able to embrace and think from a wide variety of views. Through this experience, I learned I could influence others to open up and understand each other through media, and instigate diverse perceptions and views from

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