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What will graduates from your program do? What occupational
roles do you envision for them in the future?
The CMS Program helps prepare students for a broad range of
jobs in industry, media, game design, consulting or analysis,
journalism, or in the public sphere, in museums, education,
or academia, or a combination. Many of the jobs of the future
have yet to be defined. Increasingly the corporate world has
recognized that the new problems and issues they must confront
are cultural and social not simply technological and that
they need workers who can think across media and know something
about how their products fit into consumers' lives.
Here are only a few of the job scenarios we envision for
our students:
1) In the business world -- Students who come to the CMS
program with some business background or real world work experience
and some technical skills will increase their value for managerial
work in the digital, entertainment, and advertising industries
by developing a broader context in understanding media, culture,
and society. We will offer chances for internships which get
students working with interesting companies before graduation.
There is a shortage of qualified candidates for many jobs
that require broad media literacy.
2) In the academic world -- Students will complete a Masters
in CMS and will then go on to a more traditional degree program
-- Film, Literature, etc. -- but the CMS degree will give
them an added edge, especially as the phrase "new media"
appears in descriptions for all kinds of academic jobs. Our
graduates will also be well situated to work in such areas
as instructional technologies, museum and archive curatorships,
and publishing.
3) In journalism -- Students will combine CMS training with
previous backgrounds in journalism to help newspapers and
magazines confront the new challenges posed by digital media.
Some will work to coordinate the coverage of stories across
multiple media within the same news organizations. Others
will cover the expanding entertainment industry, helping to
insure a richer and more robust public conversation about
the role of media in our lives.
I've looked at the undergraduate listing for the CMS program
and have noticed that they're arranged differently and that
there appears to be more courses. Why is this? Can I take
any courses that are not listed on the CMS curriculum chart?
The current electives in the graduate program are joint undergraduate/graduate
courses, for which graduate students are expected to complete
additional assignments in consultation with the course professor.
In addition, a graduate student can take courses relevant
to their area of study -- from the undergraduate CMS curriculum
or from other programs at the institute -- with the permission
of his/her advisor and the course professor.
Can I get a Joint Degree in CMS and another program?
The only way you can achieve a degree in CMS and another program
at the same time would be to complete the full requirements
for each degree simultaneously. CMS is definitely a full time
program and it is for this reason that we do not accommodate
a joint degree.
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