Management of Creative Media Major
Our Upside-Down Curriculum allows you to begin taking classes in your Management of Creative Media degree program starting the first semester of your first year.
Why Management of Creative Media?
Discover what it takes to sit in the director’s chair and produce a motion picture using current digital technologies. Cast yourself as editor-in-chief for a 21st-century publishing project—in all its formats. Or gain the confidence to influence the next big game idea by overseeing the team that produces it. The need for a new breed of manager to fill these exciting roles—and more—continues to grow on the business side of the creative arts.
Why Management of Creative Media at Champlain?
The need for a new breed of manager to fill these exciting roles—and others—continues to grow on the business side of the creative arts. This degree program is offered at very few colleges, so a Management of Creative Media bachelor’s degree from Champlain College will set you apart in this burgeoning field.
Our innovative program couples our highly regarded Business core with programs from our Division of Communication & Creative Media, turning out smart strategists who grasp the underlying technology and creative process required in the field.
You’ll be prepared to plan projects, manage talent and analyze financials—in short, to run the business. Plus, your know-how in marketing, merchandising, licensing and securing intellectual property rights in the rapidly evolving media landscape will ensure that projects are fully realized and as profitable as possible.
The Management of Creative Media program will ground you in business basics: accounting, business law, economics, management, finance, mathematics and statistics. You’ll also explore concepts that are redefining how business is conducted, such as globalization and social responsibility.
To better understand how creative people develop their ideas, and to develop your own creativity, you’ll take 18 credits or more in the following specialization areas within the Division of Communication & Creative Media: Broadcast & Streaming Media, Digital Film, Game Production, Graphic Design and Publishing.
Depending on your focus, you can intern at a production house, a game studio or a design agency, or gain experience on campus in the Emergent Media Center or through the Champlain College Publishing Initiative. You’ll have a resume and a portfolio to showcase your business acumen and your grasp of the creative process, as well as real-world experience ushering creative projects toward expected levels of profitability and commercial success.
You will graduate with the management and creative skills to create and execute contemporary media strategy successfully for a wide range of industries or launch your own creative media venture.
- Bring a management focus to creative projects, mastering the skills to create a contemporary media strategy and execute it successfully.
- Approach business challenges from an interdisciplinary mindset with broad-based critical thinking skills, a strong business foundation and a deep understanding of creative media design and development.
- Discover the ins and outs of marketing and making money from creative media products in the hotly competitive landscape of new consumer devices and shifting price expectations.
- Gain the skills and confidence to start your own creative media business-who says you have to wait until graduation?
- Graduate with an innovative business degree and a creative portfolio from a college known for its strengths in both areas, ready to land your dream job.
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