Preparation for Graduate Study in Digital Communications, Radio, Television, Film, and Photography

The following resources are for students interested in graduate studies that focus on how messages in various media are produced, used, and interpreted within and across different contexts, channels, and cultures, and that prepare individuals to apply communication knowledge and skills professionally.

A student should give serious consideration to post-college plans early in the college career and schedule a visit to the Office of Career Counseling to meet with Ron Gallagher, Career Counselor to students interested in Digital Communications, Media/Multimedia, Radio, Television, Film or Photography. Students should also schedule appointments with faculty with whom they have completed advanced work in these areas to discuss graduate programs they wish to pursue. Their counsel and that of the Department Advisors can help the student narrow the search of programs that would best match the student's needs.

Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia

Are programs that focus on the development, use, and regulation of new electronic communication technologies using computer applications. These programs prepare individuals to function as developers and managers of digital communications media. They include instruction in the principles of computers and telecommunications technologies and processes; design and development of digital communications; marketing and distribution; digital communications regulation, law, and policy; the study of human interaction with, and use of, digital media; and emerging trends and issues.

Here are a few institutions that offer these areas of study.

Radio and Television

Are programs that focus on the theories, methods, and techniques used to plan, produce, and distribute audio and video messages, and prepare individuals to function as staff, producers, directors, and managers of radio and television shows and media organizations. They include instruction in media aesthetics; planning, scheduling, and production; writing and editing; performing and directing; personnel and facilities management; marketing and distribution; media regulations, law, and policy; and principles of broadcast technology.

Here is a list of institutions that offer programs of study in these areas of study.

Cinematography and Film/Video Production

Are programs that prepare individuals to communicate dramatic information, ideas, moods, and feelings through the making and producing of films and videos. They include instruction in theory of film; film technology and equipment operation; film production; film directing; film editing; cinematographic art; film audio; techniques for making specific types of films and/or videos; the, use of computer applications to record or enhance images, audio or effect and the planning and management of film/video operations.

Here is a listing of institutions that offer these areas of study.

Film/Cinema Studies

Are programs in the visual arts that focus on the study of the history, development, theory, and criticism of the film/video arts, as well as the basic principles of filmmaking and film production.

Here is a listing of institutions that offer these areas of study.

Photography

Are programs that focus on the principles and techniques of communicating information, ideas, moods, and feelings through the creation of images on photographic film, plates, digital images and that may prepare individuals to be professional photographic artists. They include instruction in camera and equipment operation and maintenance, film and plate developing, light and composition, films and printing media, color and special effects, photographic art, photographic history, use of computer applications to record or enhance images and applications to the photography of various subjects.

Here is a list of institutions that offer this program of study.

Ron Gallagher

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Ron is our counselor for much of the nonprofit world including social services, the arts, and entertainment. He also enjoys working with those interested in international humanitarian efforts.