Telecommunications

Master of Arts in Telecommunications

38 credits

The Master of Arts program in Telecommunications (Digital Storytelling) empowers students to craft compelling stories for a trans-media, multi-platform environment. Students have access to the latest technologies and leading-edge facilities, and learn to investigate, research, and study issues related to new forms of digital media. The program prepares communication professionals for the multidisciplinary perspectives needed to produce and manage content for a variety of digital media, or to pursue doctoral studies in media and digital storytelling. The curriculum combines courses in digital media production with courses in media theory and research methods. Students also have the option to pursue either a creative project or thesis capstone.

Required Courses

• Foundations of Digital Storytelling 1
• Approaches to Creativity
• Digital Production 1
• Special Projects

Choose one of the following:

• Intercultural Immersion
• Professional Experience

Research methods, 3 credits from

• Journalism and Mass Communication Research Methods
• Foundations of Digital Storytelling 2

Research requirement, 6 credits from

• Creative Project
• Thesis

Design requirement, 6 credits from

Design of Information and Communication Technology Learning Systems

• Visual Storytelling
• Digital Production 2
• Digital Media Design Seminar
• Digital Audio Production

Production and applications, 9-11 credits from

• Contemporary Rhetoric and Public Issues
• Communication Training in Organizations
• Seminar in Communication
• Information and Communication Technologies, Standards and Lab I
• Regulatory Research in Context/Problems in Information Communication
• Human Factors, Needs Assessment, and User-Driven Design
• Seminar in Literary Journalism
• Writing Literary Journalism
• Data Journalism and Research Methods
• Digital Production 2
• Digital Media Design Seminar
• Digital Audio Production
• Professional Experience
• Seminar in Current Topics
• Directed Study