Program Structure

Please follow the program structure outlined in the Academic Calendar from your FIRST academic year as a student at 91´óÉñ University. Find the Academic Calendars HERE. If you have any questions, please contact your academic advisor. 

Interdisciplinary Minor in Digital Media and Creative Arts 

Students who would like to have an Interdisciplinary Minor in Digital Media and Creative Arts must complete 18 credit hours in DIGM courses and approved DIGM electives in other programs.  This must include at least 9 credit hours in DIGM courses.  The remainder can be made up of approved DIGM electives. 

Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts 

The Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts (DIGM) is open to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts program. It is designed for students interested in studying digital media and engaging in creation in the digital arts. The Major will allow students to explore the relationship between digital media, the arts, and society. A major in DIGM consists of 36 credit hours (6 credit hours can be the 1000 level). The following two DIGM courses are mandatory for the Major:

 

DIGM 2013: Digital Media Creation 

DIGM 2023: Digital Media Production 

 

At least two of the following courses should also be completed as part of the Major:

 

DIGM 3013: Digital Photography 

DIGM 3023: Documentary Film: Creation and Production 

DIGM 3033: Podcasting 

DIGM 3043: AI and the Creative Digital Arts 

 

The remaining credits for the DIGM Major can be taken from two or more disciplines in the following list of approved electives:

 

Approved Electives*
*Other courses may be approved by program faculty advisors

ANTH 3693 Media Anthropology

COPP 1013 Introduction to Communications

COPP 2023 Policy Making in the Information Age (POLS 2333)

COPP 3033 Public Policy and the Media (POLS 3213)

COPP 3043 Business Communications and Marketing

CRIM 3263 Crime and the Media

CRIM 3273 Crime in Popular Film

ENGL 1203 Introduction to Film Studies

ENGL 1233 Digital Literacy

ENGL 2113 Creative Writing: Skills

ENGL 2123 Creative Writing: Strategies

ENGL 2163 Envisioning Environmental End Times

ENGL 2213 Acting and Theatre Production I

ENGL 2223 The Page and the Screen

ENGL 2233 Acting and Theatre Production II

ENGL 2253 e-lit: Digitally Born Literature

ENGL 2393 Literature, Technology, and Culture

ENGL 2523 The Study of Drama: An Introduction

ENGL 2693 Reading Popular Culture

ENGL 2723 Fiction, Drama, and Film: A Study of Narrative I

ENGL 3163 Queer Medias and Mediating Queer

ENGL 3213 Art Cinema

ENGL 3216 Advance Acting and Theatre Production

ENGL 3223 Auteur Cinema

ENGL 3233 Digital Projects and Digital Reading

ENGL 3243 Race and Media

ENGL 3483 Irish Film

ENVS 3213 Media and Politics in Canada

FNAR 2113 Visual Art and Aesthetic Literacy

FNAR 2763 Film Production

FNAR 2963 Acting for Film and TV

FNAR 3613 Music in Film and TV

GERO 3093 Images of Aging in Film

GRBK 2206 Human Nature and Technology (HMRT 2216)

GRBK 3406 Philosophy and Art

HIST 1783 Screening History

HIST 3603 Disney and World History

HMRT 2216 Human Nature and Technology (GRBK 2206)

HMRT 3153 Popular Culture and Human Rights

HMRT 3203 Human Rights Advocacy through Social Media

JOUR 1113 Fundamentals of Effective Writing

JOUR 2033 Local Reporting, Global Media

JOUR 2063 Media Ethics and the Law

JOUR 2113 The Toolbox 1: New Media

JOUR 2123 The Toolbox 2: Mobile Media

JOUR 3013 Through the Lens

JOUR 3023 Radio and Podcasting

JOUR 3143 Documentary

JOUR 3153 Digital Journalism

JOUR 3163 New Media and Social Change (COPP)

JOUR 3173 Interviewing and the Art of the Inquiry

NATI 2703 Invented Traditions

NATI 3333 Colonial Cartography and Indigenous Nations

PSYC 4253 Psychology, the Internet, and the Digital World

RELG 3583 Media and Ethics

SOCI 2323 Sociology for Cyborgs: The Social Organization of the Internet

SOCI 2513 Sociology of Communication

SOCI 3573 Sociology of Art and Culture

 

 

The Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts is housed in the Department of Journalism and Communications. Students who wish to pursue a BA in the Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts should consult with the Director of the program.