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Digital Media Minor

Our interdisciplinary minor in Digital Media is designed to provide students with an opportunity to
explore the practice and theory of media as it is being produced on the ground today. Today's
rapidly changing media landscape of digitization, high-speed connectivity, and endless advancement
in technology is redefining the relationship between media and its audience. As a result, media
outlets are seeking to hire multi-skilled media professionals. Our program prepares students to join
the ranks of todays converged media with multi-skills media qualifications that will uniquely
distinguish them in todays market. Students in Digital Media Program are going to engage in a well
structured hands-on program that also relies on a well-established theoretical background. Students
will be exposed to a wide variety of media platforms spanning from online multimedia production to
TV and filmmaking.

Program Requirements
The Digital Media minor is open to all undergraduates and consists of an interdisciplinary program of
18 credits of required and elective courses.
At least two courses must be at the 300 level or above.
Required Course
DGMD.100 Introduction to Digital Media
Elective Courses
DGMD.102

Introductions to Telecommunications

DGMD.231/41.237 Media Law and Ethics

DGMD.300

Multimedia Storytelling

DGMD.320/70.398 Documentary Photography

DGMD.340

Lighting Principles

DGMD.400

Directed Study in Digital Media

DGMD.410

TV Studio Production

Art
70.262 Digital Imaging and Photography: Photoshop
70.375 Language of Video
70.378 Interactive Media
70.385 Streaming Video for the Wed
79.380 Understanding Movies: Cinema as Social Commentary

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Criminal Justice
42.223 Crime and the Media
Cultural Studies
58.225 History of Picturing
59.217 Media and Culture
English
42.221 Writing for Interactive Media
42.222 Oral Communication
42.226 Technical and Scientific Communication
42.300 Intro to Journalism
42.301 Newswriting
42.305 Reviewing the Arts
42.309 Writing About Issues
42.310 Writing Popular Fiction
42.320 Personal and Reflective Writing
42.369 Reading and Writing New Media
42.387 Intro to Editing and Publishing
42.407 Creative Writing Fiction II
History
43.347 History of Documentary Film
43.348 Making an Historical Documentary
Information Technology
90.232 Desktop Video Production
Political Science
46 210 Media & Politics
46.222 Politics of the Internet
46.316 Politics and Film
46.318 Politics & Advertising
46.422 Political Communications and Media Studies

For more information about the minor in Digital Media, please contact Wael Kamal, Ph.D., Program
Director, Wael_Kamal@uml.edu

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