Digital Media (B.A.) Church Media Concentration

Program Overview

Students completing this program will be able to work effectively in a broad range of fields associated with Digital Media, bringing a Christian perspective to bear on the digital world they will be helping to create. Digital Media is a broadly defined field and the program is designed to familiarize students with that breadth. All students will take a core of courses, which introduce digital interactive design, digital video, introductory computer programming, and digital sound design. The concentrations give the program depth in one specific area, and the free electives give students the option of exploring digital media in still greater depth, or combining their studies with another discipline. Each concentration is housed in its own department: Art and Design, Communication, Computer and Information Science, or Theatre. At the same time, all aspects of the program will focus on interactivity whether in video, animation, gaming, web design or other software applications.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates from Messiah’s Digital Media program can:

1. Explain foundational concepts of visual design, narrative, and computing.
2. Apply analytical and research skills needed to place digital media works in their social, historical, and cultural settings, and to understand and evaluate their effectiveness
3. Design and create successful projects in visual and sound design, and programming.
4. Effectively communicate through digital media using technical and narrative skills.
5. Design and produce a successful collaborative digital media project.
6. Articulate their own strengths and weakness related to the field of digital media; identify their suitedness for specific digital media careers.
7. Articulate how their faith connects to the study of digital media, and how faith connects to potential career options in the field of digital media

Major Requirements

Complete the following for your major:

Three credits from the following:

Three credits from the following:

Three credits from the following:

Three credits from the following (3):

Church Media Concentration (15 credits)

Note: Courses taken to fulfill a major requirement cannot also count towards the six credits of Digital Media electives requirement.

Digital Media Electives

List of approved Digital Media Electives

Church Media Concentration students are encouraged to select from the following electives:

QuEST Requirements