Turn Your Passions Into a Career
In the Division of Communication & Creative Media (CCM), each major combines academic understanding with real-world know-how, emphasizing innovation, creativity, and technological expertise. Your understanding won’t just come from a textbook. You’ll work with professionals and a network of industry partners to gain hands-on experience.
Here you’ll find exciting presentations from industry leaders – professionals, artists, authors, and scholars – that complement your classroom learning. Plus, with our Upside-Down Curriculum, you’ll start building your professional portfolio and resume in your first semester. That means you’ll be internship-ready way ahead of your peers at other creative arts schools.
By the time you graduate, you’ll be fully prepared to think and act as an empowered citizen in our media-driven and interconnected world.
Experience-Based Learning
At Champlain, you¡¯ll do so much more than you would at a typical art college. Our interdisciplinary approach emphasizes creative problem solving and fosters innovation and lifelong learning.
Through our Studio Experiences, you¡¯ll collaborate with others in a variety of majors. Put your classroom learning to the test on professional projects in studio-like environments.
Game Studio Experience
Students in our six game majors come together to learn essential professional skills, master technical expertise, and answer the question, ¡°What can we make together?¡±
You¡¯ll develop an understanding of the game pipeline from concept to finished product and gain teamwork experience many people don¡¯t cultivate until they have been working in the industry for years. The best part? You’ll create a fully functional game as a team for your portfolio.
Check out our Game Studio Experience
Creative Studio Experience
This learning model mimics the real world. Think of the Creative Studio Experience as our own in-house creative agency, with the ability to provide services that combine a variety of Champlain College majors. We bring together different minds, talents, and techniques to find solutions that work.
Check out our Creative Studio ExperienceStudy Abroad Opportunities for CCM Students
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Short-Term Study Abroad OpportunitiesAn opportunity afforded to many CCM students is the chance to go abroad through some of your classes. During breaks or over the summer, you have a chance to travel to places like Italy and Jordan, and these short, faculty-led abroad opportunities give students global perspective and a chance to create something outside of their comfort zone.
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Montreal Summer Film ProgramStudents in the Filmmaking, Creative Media, or Broadcast Media programs should take notice of the opportunity to study over the summer in Montreal. There you experience an immersive curriculum that will enhance your professional skills and foster creative projects through the rich culture and dynamic art scene.
Montreal Filmmaking Summer Program
of CCM majors in the Class of 2024 achieved career success within six months of graduation.
was the average starting salary of the Class of 2023.
Champlain¡¯s Graphic Design & Visual Communication program is accredited by the?National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the national accrediting agency for institutions teaching art, design, and related disciplines.
We have a course where students will go into the local community and do a project. It might be a mural project; it might be an event; but in some way partnering with community organizations, getting off campus into the community, and doing your creative work.
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Find Your Program
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Major (BFA)
Turn your creative ideas into career-ready skills by learning both the artistic and technical sides of visual storytelling.
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Major (BFA)
Develop your self-expression in our Creative Media major, and learn the business side of interdisciplinary production, digital creation, and entrepreneurship.
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Major (BS)
Be a digital pioneer. Bring the fullness of your human self to the study of emerging technology, including Artificial Intelligence, and make sure the digital future is humane as well as human.
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Minor
Enter the world of the Filmmaking minor through supplementary classes designed to hone your creative and technical skills that will make your resume shine.
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Major (BFA)
Master the production of motion pictures and understand the global business of filmmaking. Use the latest tools, work on real projects, and turn your vision into reality through observation, imagination, storytelling and technical skill.
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Major (BFA)
Champlain College is a gaming industry hub, and the Game Art program builds your creative vision and your technical skills to make you job-ready.
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Major (BS)
As a Game Design major at Champlain College, you’ll start building worlds on day one, preparing for a burgeoning industry. And you’ll understand the strategies, narratives and motivators that compel people to play.
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Major (BS)
Learn sound design from industry experts at Champlain, working with the same technology the pros use. Apply your skills and become a key part of a game development team, crafting successful games from start to finish.
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Minor
Implement the Game Sound Design minor into your education and uncover a path to a unique program designed to improve your skills in the sonic arts and digital music.
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Explore current issues, history, and languages of specific regions and countries around the world. Engage with theories and perspectives on political, economic, and social dynamics of globalization.
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Major (BFA)
Be a design thinker. Harness your creativity through print and digital graphics. Start building your portfolio right away.
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Minor
Perfect your technical skills while learning how design impacts messaging and vice versa. Explore the latest digital-image software and learn how to create professional communication materials.
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Major (BS)
Design your own major through Champlain¡¯s Degree Design Lab. You¡¯ll combine courses and real-world learning experiences to personalize your own education.
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Major (BS)
Put your audience in the writer’s seat to create immersive and infinite games, virtual simulations, experiences, and digital stories.
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Minor
Discover different types of narratives that are immersive, non-linear, and engage our audience in a wholly new and unique way. Learn to design these narratives and create all new experiences.
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Minor
Effective media production is a foundation of any successful business. Learn about streaming, social media and traditional media, as well as how to write, produce, and edit content for each.
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Minor
Discover the applications of real-time 3-D animation within media such as games, virtual reality, and virtual film production. Hone the artistic and technical skills needed to succeed in the field.
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Major (BS)
Develop skills with industry-standard tools to create, record, and edit music, sound effects, and other audio assets for in-demand media fields.
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Minor
Bridge the gap between design and software development. Create dynamic designs and implement them with code for mobile apps, web apps, and other forms of electronic media.
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Major (BS)
Tomorrow’s technology requires good design to be usable. Specialize in user experience (UX) or user interface (UI) design at Champlain, and create new intersections between human minds and digital spaces.
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Major (BS)
Talent is just the beginning. Today’s successful writers combine creative skills with industry knowledge and adaptability.
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Minor
Develop strong writing skills in technical writing like journalism and grant writing and more creative writing like poetry and fiction. Increase your media literacy and written communication skills.
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Major (UNDC)
It’s ok not to know what you want to study or what career to pursue¡ªwe’ve got you covered. Our Upside-Down Curriculum lets you explore your options and interests, even if you’re unsure about a degree.
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Major (UNDC)
Apply Undeclared in Communications & Creative Media to find your voice, artistic talent, and creative passion¡ªand turn them into a career path unique to you.
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