Are you looking for a future in design or media? Then Northern’s digital media program is the major for you!

 Our curriculum allows wide flexibility for discipline and media exploration, providing a strong background in art history, criticism, and theory.  You will investigate both the visual and aesthetic components of your artistic/design practice, while developing fluency in art history and contemporary culture. 

 

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Offered On Campus

120 Credit Hours

Estimated Time to Complete: Four Years

Develop Your Own Design Practice

As a digital media major at Northern State University, you’ll focus on in-depth exploration of digital design media tools, as well as a wide range of historical and theoretical approaches to the discipline. Our curriculum encourages you to study and investigate design, aesthetic, and historical discourse as you develop your own design practice. You’ll dive into art/design studio experiences and art history courses as you engage with your discipline at an advanced level, preparing you for a career in the digital art fields or even graduate studies.

Sample Coursework

Three-Dimensional Design

Introduction to Digital Media

Photography Techniques

Graphic Design I

Digital Illustration I

Digital Video Design I

Related Minors

Art History

Digital Media

Marketing and Digital Design

Movie, Animation, and Stage Acting

Studio Art

Theatre

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Moving Imagery Lab

Northern's Moving Imagery Lab serves as a film/TV studio with a green screen that allows you to use virtual backgrounds in television shows and various visual effects in short films. The lab is also home to productions of the Wolves Pregame show that is live-streamed before home football and basketball games. The lab is transformational in its impact to NSU students. 

 

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