The Department of Media Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities offers a Bachelor of Arts, Minor in Digital Media which allows students to earn a BA Minor focusing on applied digital media production skills and knowledge. The combination of production and distribution skills will benefit professionals wishing to design, produce, and distribute information in a variety of digital media, ranging from audio to video to the internet. This knowledge and these skills will be of substantial benefit in a wide variety of careers and fields of study ranging from Computer Science to English to Graphic Design. The curriculum for the BA Minor in Digital Media is strongly project-based. Students are encouraged and expected to apply the practical digital media production skills they develop towards their primary disciplines and will use the content and theory directly pulled from the students’ major field of study.

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