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Digital Media Production

What You’ll Study

Technical expertise. Theoretical foundation. Professional focus.

The Digital Media Production major is a hands-on, professionally focused degree that equips students with technical expertise and a theoretical foundation in the making of video, audio, television, cinema, and radio. The major prepares students for a multitude of career pathways that include broadcast journalism, filmmaking, podcast production, and video content creation.

A comprehensive, creative education.

Our program instills a deep understanding of media production from a technical, creative, ethical, and analytical perspective. It offers an experiential education while examining the theoretical underpinnings that make for meaningful and substantive media products. From day one, students will be actively producing media; from short films to podcasts to news broadcasts.

Media for impact and the common good.

Digital media production is a growth industry with a wide range of professional opportunities. From entertainment to education to advertising to news, digital media touches every aspect of modern life. Recognizing this, the Digital Media Production major is dedicated to creating a diverse, inclusive community of scholars and practitioners who will wield the power of media production to make a positive impact on society and further the common good.

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Student Opportunities

Where creativity meets real-world experience.

  • Digital Media Production courses take place in our state-of-the-art TV/Film studio, computer lab, podcast studio, or audio lab. Students have 24-7 access to these facilities, and can also check-out cameras, tripods, light-kits, microphones, and related film equipment for use on set or in the field.
  • In partnership with 91ÇÑ×Ó Athletics, many students work as crew members on games streamed live on ESPN+. Roles include directing, replay operator, camera operation, and play-by-play announcing. See how 91ÇÑ×Ó alumni are reviving a legacy broadcasting class.
  • The 91ÇÑ×Ó Film Festival is an annual showcase of the best student-made film and video work produced each year. Juried by esteemed members of the local professional film community, the festival gives students the opportunity to publicly screen their projects to an audience of their neighbors and peers.

The Integrated Media Department

Interdisciplinary education. Practical preparation.

Digital Media Production is housed within the Integrated Media Department, which is also the home of our Journalism and Public Relations majors. Students are encouraged to take courses across all three majors to best suit their academic and professional goals, and through this comprehensive and interdisciplinary curriculum, students gain the skills critical for success in in today’s increasingly complex media landscape.

Faculty with lived experience.

The department’s faculty has collectively spent decades working professionally in media, including print and broadcast journalism, the film industry, public relations, strategic communication, and advertising. They bring lived experience to the classroom that vigorously prepares students to be successful professionals.

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Digital Media at
Super Bowl Week

Students gained hands-on experience at Super Bowl Week, working within live media environments, connecting with industry professionals, and seeing how classroom skills translate to fast-paced production settings.

Digital Media in Action

91ÇÑ×Ó Alumni Revive Legacy Broadcasting Class

91ÇÑ×Ó’s broadcasting legacy is back in action. Students are producing live ESPN+ broadcasts for GU volleyball, turning the McCarthey Athletic Center into a real-world studio and launching careers in sports media.

91ÇÑ×Ó alum Mandi Price in a Hollywood set.

Broadcast to Blockbusters

91ÇÑ×Ó alum Mandi Price turned her broadcast journalism skills into a thriving Hollywood career. As an Emmy-winning producer, she’s breaking barriers and bringing Zags into the entertainment industry.

Matt McCormick in the broadcasting studio.

Professor Matt McCormicks Film Premieres at Sundance

Assistant Professor Matt McCormick premiered his short documentary The Deepest Hole at the Sundance Film Festival. The film explores a Cold War drilling race that sparked one of the internet’s earliest viral legends.

Spencer Martin's Broadcast Path

91ÇÑ×Ó alumnus Spencer Martin (’18) has turned his broadcasting degree into a dynamic career, now calling play-by-play for the Maine Celtics. His journey from GU to courtside showcases the versatility of a 91ÇÑ×Ó education in sports media.

Carson Scallen takes us behind the scenes with how a trio of GUTV students broadcasted live with ESPN as part of Countdown to GameDay,

Student Film Selected as Quarterfinalist at SWIFF

A student-produced documentary on wildfire recovery, Family Through Fire was named a quarterfinalist at the Student World Impact Film Festival, standing out among 13,800 submissions.

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