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2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

Digital Storytelling Microcredential


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Program Description

The micro-credential in Digital Storytelling develops and deepens your artistic interest and ability to express concepts and ideas in a hands-on, project based environment. You’ll create powerful imagery and digital stories using a range of digital media. 

COM 124  Media & Society

COM 210  Journalism-Podcasts, Blogs & Newsletters

COM 127  Video Content Creation

COM 131  Digital Storytelling

Program Learning Outcomes

Through their involvements in the Digital Storytelling micro-credential, students will:

  1. Identify and interpret the power of image, performance, sound, gesture, and cultivate your own artistic and imaginative voice.

  2. Create powerful imagery and digital stories using a range of digital media.

  3. Identify ways society and culture are shaped in journalism and mass media messaging. 

  4. Understand by study and through experience the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of creative work in media and or performance. 

  5. Refine research skills, artistic technique, and ability to form and communicate ideas, images, and critical judgments.

  6. Advance equity and inclusion in emerging media technologies and, in collaboration with students and communities, develop more inclusive methods of storytelling.

  7. Refine research skills, artistic technique, and ability to form and communicate ideas, images, and critical judgments.

  8. Advance equity and inclusion in emerging media technologies and, in collaboration with students and communities, develop more inclusive methods of storytelling.

Employment Potential

The micro-credential prepares students for the workforce in Content Creation, Marketing & Social Media Management, Digital Engagement, Production, Broadcast Media, Community Organizing/Politics, Technical Writing, Social Media, Editing, and Producing.

Developmental Assistance Available

For students who do not meet basic reading and math requirements, or who have other learning issues, extra assistance is readily available through SUNY Ulster’s Center for Academic Planning and Support (CAPS), the Patrik Math -Center, the Literacy Lab, and peer and professional tutors.

For More Information

For more information contact the Enrollment and Success Center at 845-687-5022 or the Music, Art, Design, Fashion, Theatre & Communications at 845-687-5168.

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