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Dec 26, 2024
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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Media Arts and Design, Creative Advertising Concentration, B.S.
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Degree and Major Requirements
A student must complete a minimum of 39 SMAD credits. In addition to courses in the School of Media Arts and Design, students must complete at least 75 non-SMAD credits.
Concentrations
Creative Advertising
This professionally oriented concentration provides students with the knowledge and skills to create and manage advertising programs emphasizing new media. In addition to the theoretical concepts underlying advertising, students learn strategic creative writing, effective message design, and media production. Students also learn strategic planning, implementation and evaluation of new media technologies, and research and analysis of current trends and applications. The program reviews ethical and legal issues involved in the creative advertising process and the use of new media. Students planning careers in creative advertising should obtain a broad liberal arts education to better understand the characteristics that make the diversified communication process effective across various media and organizations.
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Degree and Major Requirements
A student must complete a minimum of 39 SMAD credits. In addition to courses in the Media Arts and Design, School of , students must complete at least 75 non-SMAD credits.
Required Courses
- General Education 41 Credit Hours 1
- Quantitative requirement 3 Credit Hours 2
- Scientific Literacy requirement 3-4 Credit Hours 2
- University electives 33-34 Credit Hours
- Major requirements 39 Credit Hours
Footnotes
1 The General Education program contains a set of requirements each student must fulfill. The number of credit hours necessary to fulfill these requirements may vary.
2 In addition to course work taken to fulfill General Education requirements.
Choose one of the following concentrations: 24 Credit Hours
- Converged Media
- Creative Advertising
- Digital Video and Cinema
- Journalism
Footnote
1 Students may receive SMAD credit for either SMAD 301 or SMAD 301L , but not both.
Concentration Requirements
Choose one of the following: 3 Credit Hours
Choose one of the following Applied Skills courses: 3 Credit Hours
Choose two of the following Critical Analysis courses: 6 Credit Hours
Footnotes
1 This course fulfills the College of Arts and Letters writing-intensive requirement for the major.
2 These courses satisfy concentration requirements when the topic is appropriate.
3 Students may receive SMAD credit for either SMAD 301 or SMAD 301L , and SMAD 472 or SMAD 472L , but not both.
Recommended Schedule for Majors
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