Program Structure
Please follow the program structure outlined in the Academic Calendar from your FIRST academic year as a student at St. Thomas University. Find the Academic Calendars HERE. If you have any questions, please contact your academic advisor.
Interdisciplinary Minor in Digital Media and Creative Arts
Students who would like to have an Interdisciplinary Minor in Digital Media and Creative Arts must complete 18 credit hours in DIGM courses and approved DIGM electives in other programs. This must include at least 9 credit hours in DIGM courses. The remainder can be made up of approved DIGM electives.
Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts
The Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts (DIGM) is open to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts program. It is designed for students interested in studying digital media and engaging in creation in the digital arts. The Major will allow students to explore the relationship between digital media, the arts, and society. A major in DIGM consists of 36 credit hours (6 credit hours can be the 1000 level). The following two DIGM courses are mandatory for the Major:
DIGM 2013: Digital Media Creation
DIGM 2023: Digital Media Production
At least two of the following courses should also be completed as part of the Major:
DIGM 3013: Digital Photography
DIGM 3023: Documentary Film: Creation and Production
DIGM 3033: Podcasting
DIGM 3043: AI and the Creative Digital Arts
The remaining credits for the DIGM Major can be taken from two or more disciplines in the following list of approved electives:
Approved Electives*
*Other courses may be approved by program faculty advisors
ANTH 3693 Media Anthropology
COPP 1013 Introduction to Communications
COPP 2023 Policy Making in the Information Age (POLS 2333)
COPP 3033 Public Policy and the Media (POLS 3213)
COPP 3043 Business Communications and Marketing
CRIM 3263 Crime and the Media
CRIM 3273 Crime in Popular Film
ENGL 1203 Introduction to Film Studies
ENGL 1233 Digital Literacy
ENGL 2113 Creative Writing: Skills
ENGL 2123 Creative Writing: Strategies
ENGL 2163 Envisioning Environmental End Times
ENGL 2213 Acting and Theatre Production I
ENGL 2223 The Page and the Screen
ENGL 2233 Acting and Theatre Production II
ENGL 2253 e-lit: Digitally Born Literature
ENGL 2393 Literature, Technology, and Culture
ENGL 2523 The Study of Drama: An Introduction
ENGL 2693 Reading Popular Culture
ENGL 2723 Fiction, Drama, and Film: A Study of Narrative I
ENGL 3163 Queer Medias and Mediating Queer
ENGL 3213 Art Cinema
ENGL 3216 Advance Acting and Theatre Production
ENGL 3223 Auteur Cinema
ENGL 3233 Digital Projects and Digital Reading
ENGL 3243 Race and Media
ENGL 3483 Irish Film
ENVS 3213 Media and Politics in Canada
FNAR 2113 Visual Art and Aesthetic Literacy
FNAR 2763 Film Production
FNAR 2963 Acting for Film and TV
FNAR 3613 Music in Film and TV
GERO 3093 Images of Aging in Film
GRBK 2206 Human Nature and Technology (HMRT 2216)
GRBK 3406 Philosophy and Art
HIST 1783 Screening History
HIST 3603 Disney and World History
HMRT 2216 Human Nature and Technology (GRBK 2206)
HMRT 3153 Popular Culture and Human Rights
HMRT 3203 Human Rights Advocacy through Social Media
JOUR 1113 Fundamentals of Effective Writing
JOUR 2033 Local Reporting, Global Media
JOUR 2063 Media Ethics and the Law
JOUR 2113 The Toolbox 1: New Media
JOUR 2123 The Toolbox 2: Mobile Media
JOUR 3013 Through the Lens
JOUR 3023 Radio and Podcasting
JOUR 3143 Documentary
JOUR 3153 Digital Journalism
JOUR 3163 New Media and Social Change (COPP)
JOUR 3173 Interviewing and the Art of the Inquiry
NATI 2703 Invented Traditions
NATI 3333 Colonial Cartography and Indigenous Nations
PSYC 4253 Psychology, the Internet, and the Digital World
RELG 3583 Media and Ethics
SOCI 2323 Sociology for Cyborgs: The Social Organization of the Internet
SOCI 2513 Sociology of Communication
SOCI 3573 Sociology of Art and Culture
The Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts is housed in the Department of Journalism and Communications. Students who wish to pursue a BA in the Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts should consult with the Director of the program.