The Bachelor of Science in Television, Photography, and Digital Media is a four-year curriculum designed to prepare students for careers in digital media communications, including producing film and series television, social media, live broadcast production, directing, on-camera performance, postproduction, audio production, photography, and other related communication professions. From their very first semester, students get hands-on experience with the tools and techniques of production in television, photography, and digital media. Additionally, each student will select a concentration that focuses on the student’s unique educational goals.
Television, Photography, and Digital Media (B.S.)
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Concentrations
The Photography Concentration offers pre-professional preparation for students across a wide variety of areas including documentary, photojournalism, creative, and commercial photography. The concentration provides a grounding in photography’s history, exposure to contemporary representational debates and controversies, and knowledge of the medium’s socio-political functions. Additional emphasis is on photography’s connections to the increasingly intertwined world of media practices – film, television, audio, information exchange (documentary and journalism), writing, etc.
Course offerings include: History of Photography, Intermediate Photography, Contemporary Photographic Genres, Media Law, Photo Workshop, and more!
The Emerging Media Concentration prepares students to understand, develop, and lead the role of technology in society. The concentration combines content in media analysis and design, social analysis, and industry competency, with computation-based content in the Computer Science courses. The mission of the Emerging Media concentration is to engage and support students to become ethical leaders within the evolving discipline of emerging media, whether as designers and creators of media and technology, as entrepreneurs creating media products, or as researchers exploring the effects of media technology.
Course offerings include: Design of New Media, Utopias and Dystopias of Emerging Media, Media Law, Emerging Media Research Methods and Critical Inquiry, and more!
In the Television and Digital Media Production Concentration, students can choose from a variety of production-focused studio courses that will provide a guided pathway to the Capstone experience while allowing students flexibility to choose courses based on their specific interests.
Course offerings include: Writing for Screen Media, Television Series Production, Editing, Audio Production, Nonfiction Production, Live Event Production, and more!