
Digital and Media Studies Plan of Study
Bachelor of Arts In Digital & Media Studies
Total credit hours: 120
REQUIRED CURRICULUM
Core and General Education for Bachelor of Arts degree (56-57 credit hours)
Choose an area you’re interested in
- Art (24 credits)
- Art History (18 credits)
- Computer Science (18 credits)
- English (18 credits)
- History (21 credits)
- Marketing (21 credits)
- Philosophy (21 credits)
- Psychology (18 credits)
- Theological Studies (18 credits)
Take the intro class (3 credits)
DMS 300 Introduction to Digital & Media Studies
Choose 3 methods courses (9 credits)
ENG 351 Media Writing
ENG 352 Professional Writing
ENG 354 Technology and Culture
ENG 356 Critical Discourse Analysis
Choose your coding path (6-9 credits)
DMS 380 Beginning Markup
DMS 381 Intermediate Markup
DMS 382 Advanced Markup
DMS 383 Beginning Programming
DMS 384 Intermediate Programming
DMS 385 Advanced Programming
Sample Options of Specific Tagged & Programming Languages
Markup Languages
HTML + CSS (web coding and design)
TEI (semantic text coding for archiving and corpus analysis)
XML (dynamic web coding)
Programming Language
• JavaScript (web interactivity/app development)
• Objective C (app development)
• PHP (app development, database integration)
• Python (app development)
Choose your internship (3 credits)
ENG 360 Writing Internship
DMS 360 Media Internship / Production Internship
Capstone & Professional Portfolio (3 credits)
DMS 490 Digital and Media Studies Capstone and Professional Portfolio (3 credits)
Create a project using your skills and generate a portfolio for employers/graduate admissions to showcase your work in your chosen profession.
Self-Paced Online Modules
Students can choose which languages and the level of depth of their study and must achieve at least intermediate competency in a markup language and beginning competency in a programming language. There is no pre-requisite before beginning the coding modules but students must meet a proficiency benchmark before their internship and must complete the modules before registering for their capstone.
Digital & Media Studies Minor
Total credit hours: 15-18
REQUIRED CURRICULUM
Take the intro class (3 credits)
DMS 300 Introduction to Digital & Media Studies
Choose 2 methods courses (6 credits)
ENG 351 Media Writing
ENG 354 Technology and Culture
ENG 356 Critical Discourse Analysis
Choose your coding path (6 credits)
DMS 380 Beginning Markup
DMS 381 Intermediate Markup
DMS 382 Advanced Markup
DMS 383 Beginning Programming
DMS 384 Intermediate Programming
DMS 385 Advanced Programming
Choose your internship (3 credits*)
ENG 360 Writing Internship
DMS 360 Media Internship
* If the student’s concentration area requires an internship, this requirement can be waived and the minor completed with 15 credits.
Self-Paced Online Modules
Students can choose which languages and the level of depth of their study and must achieve at least intermediate competency in a markup language and beginning competency in a programming language. There is no pre-requisite before beginning the coding modules but students must meet a proficiency benchmark before their internship and must complete the modules before registering for their capstone.