Student Careers
Digital Media Design is a large umbrella for many disciplines within the creative industries. The list of potential careers for Digital Media Design students is long and ever evolving as new technologies introduce new demand for our talented students.
The Digital Media Design BA offers a broad curriculum where students are encouraged to take on a variety of design disciplines and then specialize as they enter their senior year. Students are given multiple opportunities to work with designers, corporations and design studios inside and outside of the classroom. Some areas of employment are now well-established such as Web Designer, Animator or Graphic Designer. Other areas we cover are very new and in-demand such as Experience Design, Motion Graphics Designer & Interface Designer.
Digital Media Design students have started careers in a wide range of creative positions, here is a selection of where our students end up;
We prepare design students for future careers.
We have a course, DIG 3595 Professional Design Practice which is dedicated to preparing students for future creative careers. The course focuses
on building efective student portfolios. It also has guest speakers from the creative
industries who help students prepare for interviews and career expectations. We also
invite past DMD students to give talks and discuss thier career paths.
There is also the course DIG 4940 Design Internship which is for Juniors and Seniors and gives current students an opportunity to work
with local and national creative studios and related industries.
For many years we have an annual portfolio review and workshop where design industry professionals are invited in to meet with the DMD students and talk about their folios. It's an opportunity for the students to present work to professionals and receive feedback and suggestions on how to best to market themselves for their future careers.
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