Creative Media Major

Turn Your Creativity into a Career That Pays

• What is Creative Media?

  Creative Media combines traditional and digital art skills with the business knowledge needed to succeed in today’s creator economy. You’ll deepen your skill set and hone your creative process, while becoming familiar with branding, entrepreneurship, and curatorial practices. . You’ll learn to create work that stands out in the marketplace while developing the business skills to turn your creativity into a sustainable career.

• Why study Creative Media at Champlain?

  At Champlain, you’ll start taking creative media courses in your first semester, not waiting until junior year like at most colleges. Our program offers advantages you won’t find elsewhere:

  • Customize your education by choosing two concentrations from six options: Creative Writing, Game Media, Interaction Design, Moving Image, Visual Art & Design, or Sonic Arts
  • Learn both the creative and business sides of the industry from faculty with real-world experience
  • Build a professional portfolio of work that showcases your unique voice and technical skills
  • Develop connections with creative industry professionals through internships and projects
• What skills and techniques will I learn studying Creative Media?

  By the time you graduate, you will:

  • Master multiple media tools – Combine digital and traditional approaches to create professional-quality work
  • Develop business skills – Learn branding, entrepreneurship, and marketing strategies specific to creative fields
  • Build a professional portfolio – Create work that showcases your unique style and technical abilities
  • Think strategically – Connect your creative work to real-world applications and market demands
  • Adapt to industry changes – Develop the flexibility to work across different media as technology evolve

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• Majors

  • Filmmaking 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.

  • Graphic Design?& Visual Communication Major (BFA) 

    Be a design thinker. Harness your creativity through print and digital graphics. Start building your portfolio right away.

  • Writing & Publishing Major (BS) 

    Talent is just the beginning. Today’s successful writers combine creative skills with industry knowledge and adaptability.

  • Digital Humanities 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.

• Minors

  • Global Studies Minor 

    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.

  • Interactive Narrative 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.

• Areas of Study

  • Creative Arts & Communication 

    With many majors to choose from, you decide how to bring your ideas to life and communicate them to the world.

  • Business & Analytics 

    Drive change at the intersection of information and impact with one of these majors.

  • Individualized Studies & Undeclared 

    Learn what you love, and love what you learn with one of these professional pathways.