Digital Media and Writing Certificate

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Program Description

A certificate in Digital Media and Writing is available to all students who successfully complete fifteen credit hours from a list of approved courses. Taking courses in the certificate program will help students understand, evaluate, and use industry-standard and emerging technologies to create interactive stories, use audio, video and still images to communicate ideas, and gain hands on experience with a variety of digital platforms.

The certificate program is open to all majors and can supplement any degree in which the skills of writing and communicating effectively with digital tools are needed. 

The courses in the program prepare students for creating and analyzing digital media, skills that have become highly valued and sought after by employers in most industries. 

Admission Requirements 

ENG 1100 with a grade of C or better

Program Learning Outcomes

Digital Media and Writing Certificate recipients will be able to:

• identify and use research and writing strategies for producing digital media (which include written text, research, and work with still images such as photographs, illustrations, or infographics, video, audio)
• critically analyze and evaluate the use of images, sound, and video in digital media
• produce digital content for different audiences (e.g.: future employers, public policymakers, the general public) and purposes (e.g. storytelling, informing, persuading, promoting)
• be able to discuss and explain their writing, research, and digital media skills in a portfolio of projects that makes interdisciplinary and/or multi-modal connections from courses in the certificate and highlights their abilities to use industry-standard software (such as the Adobe Creative Suite) and technologies (such as the New Media Incubator)

For More Information

• Digital Media and Writing Certificate
• School of Social Sciences and International Studies
• College of Liberal Arts

Program Requirements

Choose 5 courses from the following list.  One must be from English and one from Communication.

• COM 2560 - Basic Media Writing Credit Hour(s): 3
• ENG 2800 - Introduction to Creative Writing Credit Hour(s): 3
• COM 3250 - Health Communication Credit Hour(s): 3
• COM 4251 - Race, Gender and Health Credit Hour(s): 3
• COM 4710 - Topics in Communication Credit Hour(s): 3
• ENG 3000 - Business Writing Credit Hour(s): 3
• ENG 3540 - Multigenre Writing Credit Hour(s): 3
• ENG 3610 - Technical Writing Credit Hour(s): 3
• ENG 3650 - Writing Nonfiction Credit Hour(s): 3
• ENG 3820 - Introduction to Poetry Writing Credit Hour(s): 3
• ENG 3830 - Introduction to Fiction Writing Credit Hour(s): 3
• ENG 3840 - Introduction to Dramatic Writing Credit Hour(s): 3
• ENG 4610 - Rhetoric, Culture and Persuasion Credit Hour(s): 3
• ENG 4640 - Topics in Technical and Professional Writing Credit Hour(s): 3

Total: 15 Hours