Bachelor of Arts in Digital Media and Communications

Media Studies

Our graduates understand the historical lineages of relevant, prominent communications and media studies scholarship, and exhibit the ability to critically situate key concepts and academic lines of inquiry within their respective cultural and social contexts.

Media Studies

Our graduates understand the foundational methods and methodologies of communications and media studies research, including media analysis, message design, and audience research, facilitating their critical examination of the impacts of media and communication technologies on past, present, and future audiences.

Media Studies

Our graduates exhibit the media and information literacy required to critically navigate the contemporary (digital) media landscape, as well as chart courses through emerging media environments and the forms of discourse they inspire.

(Digital) Media Art

Our graduates understand the central concepts, tools of production, and structures of the discipline(s) in which they will independently be creating their content, designing and producing professional research and portfolio projects.

(Digital) Media Art

Our graduates understand how to apply media analysis and storytelling conventions in the creation and curation of dynamic and compelling visual art and professional multimedia productions, as well as connect differing concepts and perspectives to engage audiences in critical thinking related to historical, contemporary, and emerging local and global issues.

Journalism

Our graduates understand the central concepts, tools of production, and structures of inquiry at the heart of journalism and documentary storytelling, and exhibit the ability to independently conceptualize, draft, write, and publish a portfolio of newswriting and reporting.

Journalism

Our graduates understand and uses multiple methods of accurate, responsible, and ethical journalism across media platforms to explicate local, regional, national, and international connections, and make their findings accessible and meaningful for their audiences to help them become a more informed citizenry.

Global Media

Our graduates understand the central concepts, tools of production, and structures of the global discipline(s) in which they will independently be creating their content, sensitively mindful of the differing international contexts in which they will work to reach and engage with global audiences.

Global Media

Our graduates understand differing global lineages of relevant communications and media studies scholarship, and exhibit the ability to critically situate key concepts and academic lines of inquiry within their respective cultural and social (inter)national contexts, including understanding and navigating the legislative comparative differences across international media systems.