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2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Media Production

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Saint Mary’s Media Production Program offers students a multitude of pathways to pursue their passion in digital media storytelling, and prepares them for careers in increasingly media-focused job environments. 

The Media Production major is a modestly-sized interdisciplinary degree that allows students to build individualized pathways by drawing upon production and studies electives from more than fifteen other programs and majors. Students that want to further invest in their media education can pair their major with a minor in Cinematic Arts, Community Media, or Sports Media. 

Students can also easily double major in media production and another discipline, or simply pursue a Media Production minor to enhance their media literacy and technical skill building.

Faculty

Jason Jakaitis, MFA, Media Production, Program Director

Advisory Board

Joe Zeccardi, PhD, Collegiate Seminar
Deanna Zibello, PhD, Performing Arts
Ellen Rigsby, PhD, Communication
Jason Jakaitis, MFA, Media Production
James Johnson, Chief Information Officer 
Sarah Vital, User Experience and Communication Librarian 
Bryan Navarro, Director Digital Media - Alumni Office
Emily Smith, Director of Digital Media - Athletics

Faculty Affiliates

Ellen Rigsby, PhD, Communication
Leslie Anglesey, PhD, Writing Studies

Learning Outcomes

When students have completed a minor or major in the Media Production Program, they will be able to:

  1. Understand how media content can both reflect and shape cultural conversations and movements.
  2. Grasp the ethical considerations of applying formal creative choices upon non-fiction content.
  3. Develop collaborative team-building and client-based communication skills for thriving in media industries.
  4. Assess the meaning and effects of sounds and images using established theories of media.
  5. Apply narrative structure and coherent aesthetic intention to information across a variety of digital media platforms.
  6. Compose compelling images and record clear audio with a range of digital production tools.
  7. Arrange sound and image in thoughtful, layered sequence using professional digital post-production tools.
  8. Implement best practices for effective distribution of digital media content.

Programs

    Bachelor of ArtsMinor

    Courses

      Media Production - Lower DivisionMedia Production - Upper Division

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