• Advertising, Public Relations, and Marketing Communications (B.S.)
• Communication Strategy and Design (B.S.)
• Documentary Studies and Production (B.A.)
• Film (B.F.A.)
• Journalism (B.A.)
• Sports Media (B.S.)
• Television, Photography, and Digital Media (B.S.)
• Writing for Film, Television, and Emerging Media (B.F.A.)
• Park Pathways
Television, Photography, and Digital Media at Ithaca College
Prepare for a wide variety of careers in digital media communications!
Create, Manage, Distribute
Media for the 21st Century
Screens saturate our environment, from stadiums to gas pumps. People are needed to craft that audio and video—and that could be you.
Starting in fall 2024, the Roy H. Park School of Communications will offer the following majors:
Bachelor of Science in Television, Photography, and Digital Media*
This four-year program is designed to prepare you for a variety of careers in digital media communications, including:
• producing film and series television
• social media
• live broadcast production
• directing
• on-camera performance
• postproduction
• audio production
• photography
• other related communication professions
From your very first semester, you’ll get hands-on experience with the tools and techniques of production in television, photography, and digital media. Choose the concentration that focuses on your particular passions and goals.
*Reflective of the evolving industry, prior iterations of this program were offered as Television and Digital Media Production and Television-Radio.
Choose any of three concentrations
The Photography Concentration offers pre-professional preparation across a wide variety of areas, including documentary, photojournalism, creative, and commercial photography.
The photography 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: 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 them 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!
TPDM Faculty
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