Follow your passion to a successful career in digital design. Our bachelor’s degree in digital media studies will help you get there. With an interdisciplinary approach, we integrate creative arts with technical fields through coursework from a variety of colleges and departments, including Fine Arts, Computer Science, Communications, English and Business. As a digital media studies major, you’ll develop technical skills in web development, multimedia and interactive design, game design, application design, electronic business and marketing, digital graphics and e-marketing. You’ll also develop a strong commitment to artistic quality and critical thinking for the ability to design your own applications, video games, animations, short films and more.
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Choose from concentrations in Multimedia Production, Video Game Design, Graphic Design.
Many other universities with schools for film, game design and other fields in digital media separate their creative and technical disciplines, so a student must choose one field or the other. Fields like video game design and interaction design require both technical and aesthetic skills. At Tarleton, we offer a variety of opportunities to develop both in the same undergraduate degree program.
Many other universities with schools for film, game design and other fields in digital media separate their creative and technical disciplines, so a student must choose one field or the other. Fields like video game design and interaction design require both technical and aesthetic skills. At Tarleton, we offer a variety of opportunities to develop both in the same undergraduate degree program.
Our small class sizes create an intimate, student-focused learning environment that fosters critical thinking, creativity and technological expertise.
Courses
The bachelor’s degree program in digital media studies is designed to offer many opportunities for theory application, hands-on learning and student involvement through lecture and seminar projects, studio art, class critiques and individual presentations. The curriculum includes diverse art, communication, computer science, and English courses to provide you with a vast set of creative and technical skills that will give you an upper hand in the current job market.
Explore topics such as multimedia and web design, film and video production, special effects and compositing, 3-D rendering and lighting, object-oriented programming, 2-D animation with digital software, programming and more.
Digital media studies explores new and emerging digital communication trends and technologies, including computer software and applications, and teaches you how to use these tools to meet any creative challenge you encounter.
