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Due to staffing, departmental, and curricular changes at Eastern, the New Media Studies major has been frozen to new students and will no longer be offered beyond students currently enrolled and completing their degree plan.

Multimedia Writing, Form & Analysis

Students in Eastern’s New Media Studies Major, unique with Connecticut’s state universities, will take courses across several disciplines – computer science, performing arts, communication, visual arts and more – as they prepare for careers in digital motion graphics, web development/design, game and app design, digital audio/video production, 2-D and 3-D animation, social media and digital art. Coursework includes conceptional and hand-solving skills while also developing competencies in digital media. Students will also learn about legal and ethical considerations surrounding new media.

Required Program Core Courses

Interdisciplinary Explorations

Multimedia Writing, Form & Analysis (18 Credits)

  • Select 15 Credits
    • ENG 207 Forms in Creative Writing (When NMS Topic)
    • ENG 230 Reading and Writing Electronic Literature
    • ENG 237 Re-presenting Books: Encoding Electronic Texts
    • ENG 306 Digital Rhetorics and Literacies
    • ENG 360 Digital Game Studies
    • ENG 362 Writing for Digital Environments
    • ENG 363 Copyright in the Digital Age
    • ENG 365 Topics in Literature/Language (When NMS Topic)
    • ENG 373 Studies in Rhetoric and Composition
    • ENG 383 Literary Publishing
  • Required Tier III Capstone Course (choose one course)
    • ENG 499^^ Directed Research
    • NMS 440 Interdisciplinary Signature Work

^^meets Stage 3 University Writing Requirement