JOURN 165 - Careers in Digital Media

Credits: 2
Examines careers in digital media such as social media manager, video journalist, content editor, multimedia producer, on-air personality and more. Students will learn the expectations and real-world demands to successfully perform and interact in these fast-paced, ever-changing fields. Students will learn about various job pathways and how to showcase their skills and knowledge to future employers.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Establish an action plan for a career in digital media.
Determine best practices and responsibilities of various digital media industry roles.
Recognize key aspects of daily life at digital media companies.
Demonstrate productive self-reflection with regard to your professional and personal goals.
Develop a digital media portfolio to demonstrate your professional abilities to employers, graduate school committees, and friends and family.

Program Outcomes
Apply relevant criteria and standards when evaluating information in terms of how it will interest and inform their audience.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.