Nov 19, 2024  
2023-2024 GRADUATE CATALOG 
    
2023-2024 GRADUATE CATALOG [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Multimedia Storytelling Graduate Certificate


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The Graduate Certificate in Multimedia Storytelling offers students both practical and theorectical instruction in storytelling using multimedia technology: words, pictures, graphics, video, audio and social media. The certificate program emphasizes the technical expertise needed to create multimedia projects and the reporting and storytelling skills needed to create compelling content in today’s media market. 

Objectives of the program include:

  • Teach students the technical skills needed to produce multimedia projects in today’s media environment. Technical skills taught: writing, photography, video, design, audio and social media. 
  • Teach students how to create compelling content from a variety of sources, topics and fields.

Program Admission


Prospective students must submit the following in order to be considered for admission:

  • Application
  • Resume
  • Undergraduate transcript
  • Goal statement

Program Requirements (12 hours)


Students are required to take JRSM 7350 - Advanced Multimedia Reporting **  and JRSM 7510 - Information Design **   and then choose two of the following:

Graduation Requirements


Students must complete four courses with at least a B in each course.

Retention Requirements


Each student will meet with the JRSM graduate director for advising each semester. The graduate director will review the students’ progress in the program and offer advice on how to proceed. Students are required to maintain a B average to remain in good academic standing at the university. No student will get credit for a course unless the students gets at least a B. Any course where less than a B in received will have to be taken again.  

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