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Goucher College
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Master of Arts (M.A.)Multi-Media Narrative4/18/2018Recommended5/2/2018
Multi-Media Narrative Program Description
The Master of Arts in Multimedia Narrative is an interdisciplinary degree that will give its graduates mastery in the skills and strategies of nonfiction storytelling across multiple media platforms. Courses will be fully online. <br> <br>As technology and culture transform, the ways in which storytelling genres and forms combine continue to evolve. The MA in Multimedia Narrative will explore and advance the ways in which stories can be told.&nbsp; Students will learn how to create and use multimedia materials using tools of narrative design, technology, and computing -hypertext, hypermedia, data visualization, information retrieval, data mining, statistics, text mining, and digital mapping - to create compelling and innovative narratives in art, education, journalism, communications, marketing, or the promotion of social awareness and change. <br> <br>The program divides into two tracks, Creative and Professional.&nbsp; All students begin by taking three courses that provide a foundation in narrative models and rhetorical tools across genres and artistic forms.&nbsp; Students then design a course of study based on their objectives.&nbsp; There will be options for students to develop their narrative skills through writing, web design, audio, graphics, animation, or video.&nbsp; The curriculum will stress a process-oriented approach, to reinforce the idea that a capacity for telling stories relies not on the intervention of a muse but on the command of a set of skills. The course of study will also emphasize fluency in the digital arts. By the end of their time in the program, students will complete a thesis or portfolio, a work of creative and professional accomplishment that shows mastery of both craft and media. <br>

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