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Twin Cities Campus
Digital Media Studies MinorSchool of Journalism & Mass Communication
College of Liberal Arts
This interdisciplinary minor explores multiple perspectives of how information or content is created and shaped in digital media, as well as the role and impact of those media on human communication. Students will have an understanding of how digital media change the ways in which various types of content can be created, managed, and distributed and, in doing so, potentially change the content itself.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Minor Requirements
No more than two courses for a maximum of 6 credits can be earned from a single course designator.
Students completing a Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication major may only count one JOUR course (3 credits) towards the digital media studies minor. As a result, Hubbard majors must complete four elective courses (12 credits) to complete the required minimum of 15 credits for the minor.
Core Courses
Take 1 - 2 course(s) totaling 3 - 6 credit(s) from the following:
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JOUR 1501 - Digital Games and Society
[AH, TS]
(3.0 cr)
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JOUR 3551 - The Business of Digital Media: Innovation, Disruption, and Adaptation
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
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JOUR 3552 - Technology, Communication & Global Society
[GP]
(3.0 cr)
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JOUR 3751 - Digital Media and Culture
[AH, TS]
(3.0 cr)
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JOUR 4272 - Digital Advertising: Theory and Practice
(3.0 cr)
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JOUR 5501 - Communication, Public Opinion, and Social Media
(3.0 cr)
Electives
Take 3 - 4 course(s) totaling 9 - 12 credit(s) from the following:
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ARTS 3240 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
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COMM 3211 - Introduction to Media Studies
(3.0 cr)
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COMM 4291 - New Telecommunication Media
(3.0 cr)
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COMM 5231 - Media Outlaws
(3.0 cr)
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CSCI 3921W - Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing
[CIV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
CSCL 3334 - Monsters, Robots, Cyborgs
[LITR]
(3.0 cr)
·
DES 3131 - User Experience in Design
(4.0 cr)
·
DES 3141 - Technology, Design, and Society
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
·
ENGL 4722 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
HECU 3555W {Inactive}
[AH, CIV, WI]
(4.0 cr)
·
HSCI 3715 - History of Modern Technology: Waterwheels to the Web
[HIS, TS]
(3.0-4.0 cr)
·
SCMC 3001W - History of Cinema and Media Culture
[WI]
(4.0 cr)
·
SCMC 3201 - Fundamentals of Digital Filmmaking
(4.0 cr)
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SCMC 3202 - Intermediate Digital Filmmaking
(4.0 cr)
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TH 4555 - Audio Technology
(3.0 cr)
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WRIT 3371W - Technology, Self, and Society
[TS, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
WRIT 3381W - Writing and Modern Cultural Movements
[AH, WI]
(3.0 cr)
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WRIT 3577W - Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet
[TS, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
WRIT 4501 - Usability and Human Factors in Technical Communication
(3.0 cr)
·
ARTS 3760 - Experimental Film and Video
(4.0 cr)
or
ARTS 5760 - Experimental Film and Video
(4.0 cr)
·
CSCI 4921 - History of Computing
[TS, HIS]
(3.0 cr)
or
HSCI 4321 - History of Computing
[TS, HIS]
(3.0 cr)
·
HIST 1842 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
or
HIST 3842 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
HSCI 3331 - Technology and American Culture
[HIS, TS]
(3.0 cr)
or
HSCI 5331 - Technology and American Culture
(3.0 cr)
·
PHIL 4615 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
or
PHIL 5615 - Mind, Bodies and Machines
(3.0 cr)
·
WRIT 4662W - Writing With Digital Technologies
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
WRIT 5662 - Writing With Digital Technologies
(3.0 cr)
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Course Equivalencies: | Arch 3611/Arch 5611 |
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