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Web & Digital Design
Bachelor of ScienceThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.
Program Highlights
- Create digital products: Create digital products, such as graphics, interactive digital media, and web applications, that utilize current or emerging technologies to meet customer requirements and usability standards.
- Manage projects: Apply sound business principles and project management techniques to manage a digital media or web design project from conceptualization to deployment.
- Learn programming: Utilize scripting and programming languages to develop interactive digital media or web applications that meet technical specifications and quality standards.
- Meet high standards: Assess the cultural, ethical, and legal implications of producing and distributing interactive digital media, products, or platforms.
- Communicate effectively: Communicate clearly and effectively with diverse stakeholders about technology and digital media.
Required Courses
- Take the following three required courses:
- (3 Credits, CMST 290)
- (3 Credits, CMST 295)
- (3 Credits, CMST 495)
- Take 21 credits of upper-level CMST courses.
Degree Focus
To align with the upper-level requirement listed above, we recommend you choose from one of the following groups of classes below to align with your career interests:
Web Design Focus
- (3 Credits, CMST 385)
- (3 Credits, CMST 386)
- (3 Credits, CMST 325)
- (3 Credits, CMST 320)
- (3 Credits, CMST 355)
- (3 Credits, CMST 388)
- (3 Credits, CMST 488)
- (3 Credits, CMST 387)
Digital Design Focus
- (3 Credits, CMST 310)
- (3 Credits, CMST 311)
- (3 Credits, CMST 325)
- (3 Credits, CMST 320)
- (3 Credits, CMST 425)
- (3 Credits, CMST 341)
- (3 Credits, CMST 351)
Augmented/Virtual Reality Focus
- (3 Credits, CMST 308)
- (3 Credits, CMST 315)
- (3 Credits, CMST 330)
- (3 Credits, CMST 331)
- (3 Credits, CMST 390)
- (3 Credits, CMST 490)
Career Preparation
This degree program is designed to help you thrive in a variety of careers in the field of web design and graphic design. Potential job titles include extended reality (XR) designer, special effects artist, web developer, animator, web designer, and graphic designer. UMGC courses are taught by experienced faculty and address skills and competencies that are highly valued by today’s employers.Ìý
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
No previous experience is needed.
Total Program Credits
120
Transfer Credits
Up to 90
Format
- All courses available online
- Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $324 per credit (in-state)
- $499 per credit (out-of-state)
- $250 per credit (military)
- Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard UMGC admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.
Communication Studies
Bachelor of ArtsThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.
Program Highlights
- Analyze information critically: Apply critical reasoning skills to finding, evaluating, interpreting, using, and delivering information.
- Apply communication principles: Apply ethical communication principles and practices to finding, evaluating, interpreting, creating, and delivering messages.
- Write content: Create written messages tailored to specific audiences, purposes, and contexts.
- Develop presentations: Create oral and multimedia presentations tailored to specific audiences, purposes, and contexts.
- Analyze messages: Access, analyze, evaluate, design, create, and act on messages in a variety of media contexts.
- Demonstrate listening techniques: Demonstrate techniques for mindful hearing, attending, understanding, responding, and remembering in a variety of contexts.
- Utilize small-group communication: Leverage the principles of small-group communication to complete tasks.
- Apply frameworks: Apply organizational communication frameworks to the management of upward, downward, and horizontal oral, visual, and written communication in workplace contexts.
Required Courses
- (3 Credits, SPCH 100) or any SPCH course
- (3 Credits, COMM 207) or any COMM course
- (3 Credits, JOUR 201)
- (3 Credits, COMM 300)
- (3 Credits, COMM 302)
- (3 Credits, SPCH 324)
- (3 Credits, JOUR 330) or any upper-level JOUR course
- (3 Credits, COMM 400) or any upper-level COMM course
- (3 Credits, SPCH 470) or any upper-level SPCH course
- (3 Credits, COMM 390) or any upper-level COMM course
- (3 Credits, COMM 495)
Career Preparation
This program is designed to help prepare you for careers in a number of professional contexts, including in mass media, journalism, public relations, business, and corporate communication. The skills that you’ll learn in this program may be transferrable to multiple industries and potential job titles that include public affairs specialist, copy editor, SEO analyst, technical writer, and creative director.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
No previous experience is needed.
Total Program Credits
120
Transfer Credits
Up to 90
Format
- All courses available online
- Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $324 per credit (in-state)
- $499 per credit (out-of-state)
- $250 per credit (military)
- Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard UMGC admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.
Graphic Communication
Bachelor of ArtsThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.
Program Highlights
- Get creative: Produce effective visual communications by applying principles of composition, layout, color theory, and context.Ìý
- Design solutions: Plan, design, and create interactive solutions, such as user interfaces, motion graphics, mobile applications, and web designs.Ìý
- Gain skills: Use professional, analytical, collaborative, and technical design skills to support team goals, roles, and responsibilities.Ìý
- Define strategy:ÌýDefine creative campaign strategy in a business environment by combining scope, messaging, and evaluation of success.
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Required Courses
- (3 Credits, GRCO 100)
- (3 Credits, ARTT 110)
- (3 Credits, ARTT 120)
- (3 Credits, ARTT 210)
- (3 Credits, GRCO 230)
- (3 Credits, GRCO 350)
- (3 Credits, GRCO 354)
- (3 Credits, GRCO 355)
- (3 Credits, GRCO 450)
- (3 Credits, GRCO 479)
- (3 Credits, GRCO 495)
Career Preparation
This program is designed to help prepare you for a graphic design or communication management career in a variety of industries, including advertising, video production, product design, print media, digital marketing and content creation, and more. It is intended to provide you with a complete professional portfolio that showcases your graphic design samples, communication expertise, digital savvy, and brand identity. You'll prepare for job titles such as creative director, art director, web and digital interface designer, product engineer, and visual designer.Ìý
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
No previous experience is needed.
Total Program Credits
120
Transfer Credits
Up to 90
Format
- All courses available online
- Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $324 per credit (in-state)
- $499 per credit (out-of-state)
- $250 per credit (military)
- Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard UMGC admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.