Degrees in Content Creation?

[SophiaPrincess]

Time to rediscover communication degrees! After decades of their being knocked around as a generic easy major and additionally hit hard by collapses in traditional media jobs.

I completed the Communication concentration at Charter Oak State College, which they no longer offer. A sizeable part of my concentration was alt-credit. My capstone paper topic concerned humor across a whole range of media including print advertising, TV and film comedy, and yes short Internet content.

I hear a heckler in the back ask why if Jonathan studied Internet humor, his posts are so dull.

It’s a fair question.

TESU has a Communication major you could orient towards relevance to content creation. It hasn’t been popular here to date because we don’t have handy alt-credit or low-cost transfer to fulfill the requisites in Communication Theory, Mass Communication I and II, and Communication in the Digital Age.

But if you’re going to meet the minimum 15 credit residency at TESU in lieu of the Accelerate waiver fee, you could do those 12 credits at TESU plus cornerstone plus capstone which totals 18. There are alt-credit sources for Interpersonal Communication, Intercultural Communication, and communication and humanities electives. Note several TECEPs will fit and are RA credit.

Arkansas State University has very good tuition (282 per credit undergrad, 340 master’s) and several pertinent programs online including a BA in Creative Media Production, Undergraduate Certificate in Social Media Management, and MS in Media Management.

Liberty University has good tuition with several discount offers and several pertinent programs online including an MA in Digital Content and even PhD in Strategic Media.

Harvard Extension School has impressive pertinent programs including a Master of Liberal Arts in Digital Media or in Journalism, and a Graduate Certificate in Digital Storytelling. The degrees have a brief on-campus session, the certificates generally not.

Another option is to find a marketing degree with a lean toward “marketing creative” work, as opposed to corporate-speak writing about marketing or to heavy analytics. The WGU MS in Marketing, Digital Marketing specialization looks more promising than average in this respect.

You make excellent points, Jonathan about the value of a communication degree today. Media and journalism have experienced a rapid transformation in my lifetime. Communication might be more relevant today than at any point in history. Online media consumption certainly occupies the attention of a great many people.

[Guantowner]

I went with a communications degree that let me focus on digital media and video production. It gave me enough flexibility to learn editing, storytelling, and audience engagement without being too narrow.

[bjcheung77]

I went with a communications degree that let me focus on digital media and video production. It gave me enough flexibility to learn editing, storytelling, and audience engagement without being too narrow.

That's what I would recommend as well, you don't really need a specific degree, it's the classes that you take that really matter for people like me. For example, it can be a Comp Sci degree, but I'd like more class in subject matter that is more geared towards a traditional or similar to a data science degree.