Degrees Offered

Program Description

Creative Media Production is designed to nurture students with a passion for storytelling and communicating, and a talent for expressing themselves. Through experiential learning, students learn how to create and distribute content across multiple media platforms. This provides a solid foundation on which to build their careers in a variety of rewarding professions.

Description

The multimedia journalism program prepares professional storytellers to generate, research, write, and produce newsworthy content across multiple media platforms. Through hands-on instruction, practical workplace experience and conceptual coursework, students learn how to create and distribute content for print, radio, television, digital, interactive, social and mobile media. Many graduates find employment as working journalists and news practitioners while others help public, private, non-profit and for-profit organizations tell their stories.

Multimedia journalism is designed to develop news judgment and storytelling skills applicable to a variety of professions and media outlets and talent for performance and teamwork. The hallmarks of good journalism are germane to all forms of good storytelling; particularly the need for fact-based information told in compelling ways that engage audiences. The curriculum is designed to be flexible and meet student interests.

Degree Focus Areas

While you will learn how tell stories across all platforms, you can focus your studies in one area of primary interest:

• Broadcast Journalism

  Students who choose to focus on broadcast journalism will gain additional skills and experience in radio and television storytelling. Student media outlets such as ASU-TV and Red Wolf Radio provide opportunities for students to report news about events on and off campus. Before going on air, they must use a variety of skills to edit, write and record facts about the story in a way that makes it understandable for the listening or viewing audience. In addition, they usually have to create versions of their stories for other media platforms such as the station’s web site and its various social media platforms

• Digital Journalism and Print Journalism

  Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of a breaking news story? There’s a good chance a journalist was somewhere in the background recording those events and details that were later used in the published news story. This is part of what students learn how to do when they major in Multimedia Journalism. Our student journalists, also known as reporters, conduct interviews and write articles for The Herald, the award-winning campus newspaper that has existed since 1921 and for Delta Digital News Service (DDNS). Because The Herald publishes both a paper and online version, reporters typically produce content for both versions. This requires them to stay up to date with new developments of stories so that the online edition can be updated with the most current information. Students who work for DDNS Students gain real-world experience by publishing stories in multimedia formats that are fed to news outlets of all sizes and types. These outlets give students credit when they use their work.

• Photojournalism

  Students who study photojournalism learn to report news using the same basic skills as students studying print and broadcast journalism. The major difference in their training is learning to use the camera to tell stories guided by ethical journalistic principles. Just think about how bland our memories would be about major events or even local events in history without photos. Thanks to the skilled work of photojournalists, photos exist that help us to remember events as they unfolded in time. Students also learn how photojournalism differs from regular photography by becoming skilled at interpreting and communicating events through a the lens of their camera. Images in their photographs are diverse and can range from social unrest in a city to sporting events on campus. Here at A-State, their photos are used regularly in The Herald newspaper and in DDNS.

Curriculum
Curriculum and degree requirements can be found in the most current Undergraduate Bulletin. Visit the bulletins page >>

Multimedia Journalism Courses

Once students choose which focus they want to pursue in Multimedia Journalism, they then take courses that help them to develop their chosen career.

Following is a sample of some of the courses a student might consider taking to pursue their emphasis in the Multimedia Journalism degree:

MDIA 1013 Principles of Journalism
MDIA 2201 News Practicum I
MDIA 2223 Video Production
MDIA 2313 Digital Media Production
MDIA 3053 Sports Reporting
MDIA 2323 Reporting Words
MDIA 3013 Multimedia Reporting
MDIA 3063 Editing for Publication and the Web
MDIA 3093 Photo Storytelling I
MDIA 3603 Television Reporting
MDIA 4003 Communications Law and Ethics
MDIA 4323 Diversity and Media
MDIA 4343 News Performance and Production

Program Description

Mass Communication is the study of sharing information through media outlets to reach large population segments. The primary focus of the M.S. in Mass Communications is on the fundamentals of communication theories enabling students to acquire the ability to understand and use basic methods of communication research.

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Media Management is designed to give you an in-depth understanding of digital and multi-channel communication in an evolving media landscape. This 100% online degree prepares you to take on management roles in advertising, public relations, marketing, sales, news and broadcast or the non-profit sector.

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Students and current employees in strategic communication, marketing, advertising and public relations organizations learn corporate media production skills to effectively create media messages and content for the business workplace.

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