Multimedia Studies

About the Program

Program Goal: Career

GE Pattern(s): Butte Local

Program Code: 09582.00AS

Multimedia Studies is a comprehensive program that recognizes the need to prepare the student for the world of work in today's high performance organization. This program delivers a dynamic, multidisciplinary, interactive, project-based curriculum designed to foster creativity, teamwork, and professionalism. While providing laboratory experiences for the development of skills in multimedia and related technical areas, the student will also develop competencies in workforce preparation, such as in portfolio development, communications, and high performance organization workplace skills. The Multimedia Studies Program New Media Lab is a state-of-the-art Macintosh-based multimedia lab equipped with industry standard computer and state-of-the-art multimedia applications. Students build a strong foundation of skills and knowledge graphic design, video, multimedia and animation, idea presentation, portfolio development, and an overview of the opportunities in Multimedia.

All areas of the multimedia industry are experiencing unprecedented growth in order to meet the industry's needs. There is a constant demand for highly skilled, qualified, and knowledgeable workers, and the rapidly expanding growth of drone video and photography, and 3D printing technologies, is creating a need for workers with these skills.

Program Learning Outcome(s): Upon successful completion of the program, the student will be able to:

1. Employ critical thinking and conceptual problem-solving skills to create a portfolio and body of work to be used for promotion, client and project acquisition as a freelance designer, and to be used for obtaining employment in the design industry.
2. Demonstrate expert use of equipment, materials and software when creating multimedia projects.
3. Discuss, write about, organize and produce works for presentation to clients, employers and implementation based on project needs.