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Emergent Media (Minor)

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A minor in Emergent Media in Mass Communications provides students in disciplines outside of the major with a broad background in emergent media and its functional uses.

Degrees & Offerings
  • Minor
Location
  • Bloomsburg
  • Lock Haven
  • Mansfield
Department
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Associate Professor, Media and Journalism
Illustration of Mountain

The program enables students to develop a strong foundation in emerging media, particularly in the areas of new communication technologies, website development and design, and visual communications within a mass communications context. In today’s media-centric world employers are looking for individuals with multiple skills in the latest media use and design, media literacy, and web design and development.

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Courses and Curriculum

Emergent Media Minor Requirements

  • 18 credits required for minor completion
  • Students should meet with their academic advisor each semester and use Degree Works to monitor their individual progress toward completion of the minor.

Minor Requirements

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

  1. Describe how traditional and emerging media have influenced the communications field.
  2. Apply professionally competent knowledge by producing and maintaining various multimedia content.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of social communication theories, principles, concepts, and methods through digital image creation and use.
  4. Apply ethical and legal communication skills, theories and policies when communicating with the mass public.

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