NOTE: This program utilizes courses from three current programs:

Photography, Digital Media, Graphics Technology.

Enrollment Date: Fall, Spring, or Summer Semester
Minimum Required Credits: 61
Campus: Fort Dodge and Online
Department: Career and Technical Education
CIP#: 50.01020200

Program Outcomes:

1. Execute curiosity, creativity, intellectual risk-taking, critical thinking, effective oral and written communication skills, and employ industry standard digital and analog media hardware and software, to design and generate media projects and presentations utilizing a variety of media, digital media and multimedia platforms, based on effective principles and practices of media aesthetics for a target audience by understanding the media critically and recognizing how media shapes and is shaped by politics, society, culture, economics, and daily lives of the target audience. 
2. Demonstrate the ability to observe events, gather information, and construct effective messages/stories using the foundations, process, and practices to exhibit proficiency in writing in one or more professional media applications. 
3. Utilize the power of persuasion and ethical responsibilities of communicators in communication at all levels by surveying the complex relationship between media communication and a diverse set of individuals, social, and professional practices. 
4. Comprehend the foundations, process, and practices of the media, and demonstrate proficiency in writing and producing both scripted and live production in one or more professional media applications. 
5. Express broadcast media as a system of interrelated forces, including technological advances, economic dynamics, complex organizational structure, regulatory constraints, and ethical concerns with a sense of self-confidence and self-efficacy and an awareness of their responsibilities as professionals in their field with knowledge, skills, and values that prepare for future careers in broadcast and digital media.