You have questions. We have answers. Dive deeper into what you'll gain as a student
in our Digital Communication program.
Your questions, answered.
Here are some of the most common questions we receive about our program.
Many people are interested in mass communication in all its forms: journalism, print
and Web design, computer graphics, social media, advertising and public relations.
The Digital Communication program combines all these areas and helps comprehensively
prepare you for jobs in the communication departments of businesses, nonprofit organizations
and government agencies, places that require you to write press releases, design brochures,
build and maintain websites, connect through social media and create lots of other
communication-related pieces—without skipping a beat.
As a Digital Communication major, you’ll get to specialize in the area that interests
you most: Media Design & Production, Public Relations or Digital Theory & Culture.
You can take as many classes as you like in any of the other areas; it’s like minoring
within the major.
We also offer you four ways to take courses outside of our standard offerings.
Your adviser can talk with you more about these possibilities.
Students enter the program from a variety of backgrounds, from production areas such
as photography, video and graphic design to English, business, general studies and
other liberal arts disciplines. We expect you to have strong writing and speaking
skills as well as the ability to learn and find your way around various computer programs.
The vast majority of students transferring into the Digital Communication program
will not have to take additional courses to be eligible for graduation.
Our approach to communication is interdisciplinary but career focused; it will prepare
you for a multitude of jobs. UBalt's Digital Communication program graduates have
gotten jobs as:
graphic designers
audio/video producers
communications specialists
copywriters
events planners
journalists
marketing directors
media relations specialists
publication designers
public relations specialists
project managers
technical writers
Web designers
and more.
They've also used their degree as a stepping stone to a variety of graduate school
programs across the country.
Qualified students can take up to 9 graduate credits and count them toward their corporate
communication degree and their publications design graduate degree, if they decide
to continue in our master's program.Your adviser can tell you more about our Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Option.
Yes, we can! We’ve been helping digital communication majors find internships for
more than 20 years. Consequently, we have a big pool of possible internships for you.
We know a lot of good ones, and we also know some to steer you away from. We’ll suggest
a few that you can pursue based on your interests, skill level and scheduling constraints.
Some students have their own contacts and are able to find their own internships.
Our main concern is helping you find an internship that will benefit you in a significant
way.
We offer digital communication courses both day and night. You can be a day-only student,
a night-only student or you can mix and match.
Although the major isn’t available exclusively online, we do offer some classes online
or partially online in a “hybrid” format that mixes online learning with face-to-face
classroom time. Speak with an adviser for more information.
If you're entering as a freshman, it will take you four years. If you're transferring,
it depends on the number of credits you transfer and how many classes you take each
semester. A student who transfers an A.A. degree from a Maryland community college
and attends full time (15 credits per semester) can complete the program in two years.
Most part-time students take two or three courses per semester and graduate in about
four years.
