Digital Media

This program will be available for students starting in Fall 2013 or later.

School of Communication Core (10 credit hours)

• COMM 100: SOC Seminar
• COMM 200: Communication & New Media
• COMM 201: Media Theory and Criticism
• COMM 360: Digital Media Ethics

Applied Courses (6 Credit Hours)

• COMM 130: Intro to Audio
• COMM 135: Intro to Video Production
• COMM 275: Web Design and Usability (required)
• COMP 105: Computer Animation
• COMP 125: Visual Information Processing
• COMP 150: Intro to Computing

 Research Methods (3 credit hours)

• COMM 365: Naturalistic Methods
• COMM 366: Observing & Measuring Communication Behavior
• COMM 367: Rhetorical Criticism
• COMM 368: Critical Ethnography in Communication

Media Theory, History and Law (6 credit hours)

Choose 2 from list, max 1 non-COMM course

• COMM 280: History of Communication Technologies
• COMM 282: Media Law
• ENGL 358: Cultural Theory
• ENGL 359: High and Low Culture
• ANTH 210: Visual Representation of Culture
• ANTH 308: Media and Cultural Change

Electives (15 credit hours)

Choose 5 course, max 2 non-COMM courses and a minimum 3 at 200-level or above

• ANTH 210: Visual Representation of Culture
• ANTH 223: East Asian Pop Culture
• ANTH 308: Media and Cultural Change
• BWS 370: African-American Mass Media
• COMM 130: Intro to Audio
• COMM 135: Intro to Video Production
• COMM 206: Writing for the Web
• COMM 207: Photojournalism
• COMM 258: Games Studies
• COMM 263: Introduction to Design and Editing
• COMM 271: Media Culture and Communication
• COMM 274: Intro to Cinema
• COMM 276: Media and Society
• COMM 283: Global Media
• COMM 307: Communication and Social Change
• COMM 322: Guerilla Media
• COMM 323: Remixing Culture
•  COMM 357: Archiving and Curating
• COMM 359: Advanced Post-Production
• COMM 361: New Media Design and Criticism
• COMM 3XX: Animation***
• COMM 37X: Special Topics in Film & Media Production
• COMP 104: Computer Animation
• COMP 111: History of Computing
• COMP 125: Visual Information Processing
• COMP 150: Introduction to Computing
• COMP 316: Ethics & Computers
• COMP 317: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing
• DIGH 400: Introduction to Digital Humanities Research
• ENGL 358: Cultural Theory
• ENGL 359: High and Low Culture
• FNAR 132: Visual Communication 1
• FNAR 219: Digital Photography 1
• FNAR 232: Visual Communication 2
• FNAR 233: Computer Graphics 1
• FNAR 319: Digital Photography 2
• FNAR 332: Visual Communication 3
• FNAR 333: Computer Graphics 2
• FNAR 334: Computer Graphics 3
• FNAR 382: Visual Communication 4
• SOCL 123: Media and Society
• SOCL 126: Science, Technology & Society

Capstone/Engaged Learning (3 credit hours)

Requires a minimum of 25 credits of FDM course-work and Junior or Senior standing

• COMM 357: Archiving and Curating
• COMM 379: New and Digital Media Practicum
• COMM 387: New and Digital Media Capstone
• COMM 39X: FDM Internship