New Media explores the professional practice of creative storytelling leading to an understanding of and employment in the media profession, including filmmaking, game design, sports production, video production, visual communication, and other fields where digital tools are used to communicate creatively with a mass audience. This major is based around a hands-on curriculum that is based extensively in praxis, or hands-on work in real media environments. The curriculum in New Media is likened to that of a medical degree, where students learn in real-world settings in close collaboration with industry professionals. To assure students are never alone in this process, we use a cohort system that rapidly moves students through traditional courses so that they can spend the majority of their stay at William Penn University working closely with our Communication Research Institute on professional programming, giving them practical experience each year as if they were employed part-time.
