Multimedia Authoring Minor
Coordinator: Senior Lecturer Kleckner
The Multimedia Authoring minor at Elon provides an interdisciplinary approach to the development of successful and persuasive digital content for all disciplines. Students will have the opportunity to develop communication, design, and technology skills in the context of disciplinary content. These skills are beneficial for graduates in a variety of fields, but are especially relevant in publishing (both new electronic media, as well as traditional media), business marketing, and business consulting.
The multimedia minor will allow students to integrate the study of digital design and writing with a solid technical foundation through core courses in English and Information Science. Students will learn document design and content from the English department where they will address the theory and challenge of developing multimedia with rich technical writing. These design skills will be complemented with courses in Information Science focusing on Web-based databases and Web servers.
In the final Multimedia Authoring Studio course, students will address a variety of multimedia challenges as well as become production designers for Visions magazine, a peer-reviewed publication written by and for Elon students.
Minor Requirements
Required courses: 12 sh
| PWR 212 | MULTIMEDIA AND VISUAL RHETORICS I | 4 sh |
| CSC 111 | DATA SCIENCE AND VISUALIZATION | 4 sh |
| MMA 460 | MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING STUDIO | 4 sh |
Select eight hours of MMA electives from the following: 8 sh
| ART 260 | INTRODUCTION TO INTERMEDIA AND PHOTOGRAPHY | 4 sh |
| ART 360 | THE ALTERED IMAGE IN DIGITAL ART | 4 sh |
| ART 361 | INTERNET ART | 4 sh |
| ART 362 | VIDEO ART AND EXPANDED CINEMA | 4 sh |
| COM 315 | MULTIMEDIA NEWS PRODUCTION | 4 sh |
| COM 322 | CORPORATE PUBLISHING | 4 sh |
| COM 324 | TELEVISION PRODUCTION | 4 sh |
| COM 326 | CINEMA PRODUCTION | 4 sh |
| COM 350 | WEB AND MOBILE PUBLISHING | 4 sh |
| COM 359 | STRATEGIES FOR EMERGING MEDIA | 4 sh |
| CSC 340 | MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT | 4 sh |
| CSC 435 | GAME PROGRAMMING | 4 sh |
| PWR 215 | PROFESSIONAL WRITING AND RHETORIC | 4 sh |
| PWR 311 | PUBLISHING AND EDITING II | 4 sh |
| PWR 312 | MULTIMEDIA AND VISUAL RHETORICS II | 4 sh |
| CSC 310 | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION | 4 sh |
| CSC 320 | WEB DEVELOPMENT | 4 sh |
| MKT 311 | PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING | 4 sh |
| | OR OTHER APPROVED ELECTIVES | |
Total Credit Hours: 20