Turn Your Passions Into a Career
In the Division of Communication & Creative Media (CCM), each major combines academic understanding with real-world know-how, emphasizing innovation, creativity, and technological expertise. Your understanding won’t just come from a textbook. You’ll work with professionals and a network of industry partners to gain hands-on experience.
Here you’ll find exciting presentations from industry leaders – professionals, artists, authors, and scholars – that complement your classroom learning. Plus, our on-campus Centers of Experience offer great paid internships that allow you to work with real clients and build your resume.
With our Upside-Down Curriculum, you’ll start building your professional portfolio and resume in your first semester. That means you’ll be internship-ready way ahead of your peers at other creative arts schools.
By the time you graduate, you’ll be fully prepared to think and act as an empowered citizen in our media-driven and interconnected world.
Experience-Based Learning
At Champlain, you’ll do so much more than you would at a typical art college. Our interdisciplinary approach emphasizes creative problem solving and fosters innovation and lifelong learning.
Through our Studio Experiences and Centers of Experience, you’ll collaborate with others in a variety of majors. Put your classroom learning to the test on professional projects in studio-like environments.
Game Studio Experience
Students in our six game majors come together to learn essential professional skills, master technical expertise, and answer the question, “What can we make together?”
You’ll develop an understanding of the game pipeline from concept to finished product and gain teamwork experience many people don’t cultivate until they have been working in the industry for years. The best part? You’ll create a fully functional game as a team for your portfolio.
Check out our Game Studio ExperienceCreative Studio Experience
This learning model mimics the real world. Think of the Creative Studio Experience as our own in-house creative agency, with the ability to provide services that combine a variety of Champlain College majors. We bring together different minds, talents, and techniques to find solutions that work.
Check out our Creative Studio ExperienceEmergent Media Center (EMC)
The EMC is a place where you’ll think critically, collaborate effectively, and leverage media strategically for business, artistic and social purposes. You’ll work on exciting projects for industry and nonprofit clients and develop new concepts and applications for games and other new media.
Learn About the EMCStudy Abroad Opportunities for CCM Students
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Short-Term Study Abroad Opportunities
An opportunity afforded to many CCM students is the chance to go abroad through some of your classes. During breaks or over the summer, you have a chance to travel to places like Italy and Jordan, and these short, faculty-led abroad opportunities give students global perspective and a chance to create something outside of their comfort zone.
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Montreal Summer Film Program
Students in the Filmmaking, Creative Media, or Broadcast Media programs should take notice of the opportunity to study over the summer in Montreal. There you experience an immersive curriculum that will enhance your professional skills and foster creative projects through the rich culture and dynamic art scene.
Montreal Filmmaking Summer Program
of CCM majors in the Class of 2023 achieved career success within six months of graduation.
was the average starting salary of the Class of 2023.
Champlain’s Graphic Design & Visual Communication program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the national accrediting agency for institutions teaching art, design, and related disciplines.
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- Bachelor of Fine Arts
Imagine manifesting your colorful childhood imagination on screens large and small. Now imagine getting paid to do it all day.
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Tailor your Filmmaking degree with a Cinematography concentration and dive deep into camera work and creating video images at Champlain College.
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- Bachelor of Fine Arts
Develop your self-expression in our Creative Media major, and learn the business side of interdisciplinary production, digital creation, and entrepreneurship.
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Hone your personal creative voice and study the art of creatively stringing words together to create meaning, inspire action, and tell a story – from social media to children’s books.
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Discover the complexities and interdependencies of our environments, communities, governments, and economies with a concentration in Dialogue and Consensus Building.
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- Bachelor of Science
Be a digital pioneer. Bring the fullness of your human self to the study of emerging technology, including Artificial Intelligence, and make sure the digital future is humane as well as human.
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Tailor your degree with a Directing concentration and develop the on-set skills necessary for a successful career in directing at Champlain College.
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Tailor your Writing & Publishing degree with an editing and publishing concentration and develop expertise in editing and prepare for various roles within the publishing world at Champlain College.
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Enter the world of the Filmmaking minor through supplementary classes designed to hone your creative and technical skills that will make your resume shine.
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- Bachelor of Fine Arts
Master the production of motion pictures and understand the global business of filmmaking. Use the latest tools, work on real projects, and turn your vision into reality through observation, imagination, storytelling and technical skill.
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- Bachelor of Fine Arts
Champlain College is a gaming industry hub, and the Game Art program builds your creative vision and your technical skills to make you job-ready.
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- Bachelor of Science
As a Game Design major at Champlain College, you’ll start building worlds on day one, preparing for a burgeoning industry. And you’ll understand the strategies, narratives and motivators that compel people to play.
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Explore the production of visual game assets, developing creative confidence and building a toolbox of technical skills.
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- Bachelor of Science
Learn sound design from industry experts at Champlain, working with the same technology the pros use. Apply your skills and become a key part of a game development team, crafting successful games from start to finish.
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Implement the Game Sound Design minor into your education and uncover a path to a unique program designed to improve your skills in the sonic arts and digital music.
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Explore current issues, history, and languages of specific regions and countries around the world. Engage with theories and perspectives on political, economic, and social dynamics of globalization.
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Tailor your Graphic Design and Visual Communication major with a Graphic Design concentration and master artistic training and technique and explore the production of studio work.
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Perfect your technical skills while learning how design impacts messaging and vice versa. Explore the latest digital-image software and learn how to create professional communication materials.
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- Bachelor of Fine Arts
Be a design thinker. Harness your creativity through print and digital graphics. Start building your portfolio right away.
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Master technical design implementation at Champlain College, creating engaging user experiences through coding, prototyping, and usability testing.
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- Bachelor of Science
Design your own major through Champlain’s Degree Design Lab. You’ll combine courses and real-world learning experiences to personalize your own education.
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What makes using a phone fun? Explore designing people’s experiences and interactions with digital media in this rapidly evolving digital landscape.
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- Bachelor of Science
Tomorrow’s technology requires good design to be usable. Specialize in user experience (UX) or user interface (UI) design at Champlain, and create new intersections between human minds and digital spaces.
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- Visual Design Concentration
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Discover different types of narratives that are immersive, non-linear, and engage our audience in a wholly new and unique way. Learn to design these narratives and create all new experiences.
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- Bachelor of Science
Put your audience in the writer’s seat to create immersive and infinite games, virtual simulations, experiences, and digital stories.
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- Bachelor of Science
Businesses run on stories and data. Tune in to emerging marketing strategies and graduate ready for your career, with impressive industry-standard certifications.
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Effective media production is a foundation of any successful business. Learn about streaming, social media and traditional media, as well as how to write, produce, and edit content for each.
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Tailor your Filmmaking degree with a Editing (Motion Graphics) concentration and dive deep into bringing visual concepts to life in innovative ways at Champlain College.
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Tailor your Graphic Design and Visual Communication degree with a Motion Graphics concentration and dive deep into bringing visual concepts to life in innovative ways at Champlain College.
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From social media reels to movie screens, the moving image is dominating today’s media. Explore the production and technical elements of moving image creation.
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Tailor your degree with a Producing concentration and explore the production process of filmmaking from start to finish at Champlain College.
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Discover the applications of real-time 3-D animation within media such as games, virtual reality, and virtual film production. Hone the artistic and technical skills needed to succeed in the field.
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Tailor your degree with a Screenwriting concentration and master the art of crafting scripts for a variety of media types at Champlain College.
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Create the atmosphere, set the mood, and intensify action— Explore the technical art of sound design.
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Tailor your Filmmaking degree with a Sonic Arts concentration and dive deep into the technical art of sound design at Champlain College.
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Bridge the gap between design and software development. Create dynamic designs and implement them with code for mobile apps, web apps, and other forms of electronic media.
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- Undeclared
It’s ok not to know what you want to study or what career to pursue—we’ve got you covered. Our Upside-Down Curriculum lets you explore your options and interests, even if you’re unsure about a major.
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Apply Undeclared in Communications & Creative Media to find your voice, artistic talent, and creative passion—and turn them into a career path unique to you.
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Become a versatile creator and push creative boundaries by studying a combination of drawing, printmaking, photography, and digital art.
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Tailor your Graphic Design and Visual Communication major with a concentration in Visual Communication and specializing in using visual design to execute messaging, branding, and information sharing.
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Free your creativity, master visual design, and create compelling experiences at Champlain College’s Visual Design concentration in Interaction Design.
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- Bachelor of Science
Talent is an amazing ingredient, but it’s not the whole recipe. Working writers need a solid foundation in the mechanics of writing, a storyteller’s gift for narrative, a poet’s eye for detail, and drive to keep adapting and improving improving in a fast-changing industry. Champlain College can give you all that and more.
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- Editing / Publishing Concentration
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Develop strong writing skills in technical writing like journalism and grant writing and more creative writing like poetry and fiction. Increase your media literacy and written communication skills.
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