There is no business expanding more rapidly today than digital communication. Many consumer products are already available. The opportunities are everywhere. Book publishers today shy away from receiving manuscripts on paper because manuscripts in digital format are so much easier and faster to get into print. All television stations now require multi-media skills and many have specialists on the staff.
Most daily newspapers are already on the Web while weekly newspapers are beginning to sign on.
Digital radio accounts for the clearer sound you hear from many of your favorite stations, and photography in general is moving away from film and into the computer. And what's perhaps more important, the media are merging with one another regularly. Hardly a week goes by when without a major motion picture company or cable television corporation or Internet software company merging into more interesting and more powerful players in today's digital arena. Students studying this field must be acquainted with a spectrum of possibilities from print media to television, from the Internet to digital sound. So we designed our program to acquaint them with the fundamentals of publishing through modern computer systems, communicating visually through photographs and graphics, and manipulating text, graphics, video, and sound into useful products.