Digital Media Production – B.S.
The Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Media Production from Kent State University educates students to create exciting fiction and non-fiction content for delivery in today’s most in-demand formats.
Duration
4 years
Starting Date
January, August
Tuition Fee
$ 21,578 per year
Location
Kent, United States
About the program
Whether they want to produce the next award-winning podcast, write a hit streaming series, or influence millions with social media content, students learn from seasoned professionals using industry standard technology to tell their stories on screens big or small.
Many opportunities exist to collaborate with students from theatre and dance, game design, science, music, art, fashion and technology during the production of live TV, short films, audio series, documentaries and animated works.
Students also have the chance to work with Kent State’s TeleProductions operations, the nationally recognized Student Media outlets at the School, and even NPR affiliate WKSU.
With the added professional experience students earn from the required internship, they graduate ready to play a leading role in the entertainment industry of tomorrow.
Learning Outcomes
Graduates of this Digital Media Production program from Kent State University will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical thinking, grounded in a legal and ethical framework.
- Gather information, analyze it and make informed judgments using methods and tools appropriate to their professions.
- Demonstrate the ability to apply theory and research appropriate to their professions, including quantitative and qualitative methods.
- Demonstrate the ability to apply basic ethical principles to their professional work.
- Demonstrate the ability to apply laws and regulations applicable to their professional work.
- Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences and purposes they serve.
- Demonstrate understanding of how media and their professions evolved historically, their role in societal development and their global interaction today with institutions and individuals.
- Demonstrate appreciation for diverse cultures and individual differences, and reflect that appreciation in their work.
Courses Included
- Elements of Film, Tv and Animation
- Production Safety and Set Protocol
- Media, Power and Culture
- Production Fundamentals
- Story for Picture
- Directing for Picture
- Production
- Digital Video Editing
- Sound for Picture