Fine Arts Scholarships: Communication and Digital Media

COMMUNICATION & DIGITAL MEDIA Fine Arts Scholarships

cdm department chair February 2021 Welcome to Carthage Communication and Digital Media scholarship interview days! We are so happy to have you with us today.

My colleagues and I have the best job in the world. We get to have a hand in helping students seize their opportunities and find their ways in life. In the Communication and Digital Media Department, we are committed to leading students on the adventure of molding their passions into skills.

Write. Speak. Create. Here at CDM, expect to do it all. Our goal is to help students see they have the ability to make the world a better place.

In addition to your scholarship interview, I hope you will stop by the Communication and Digital Media virtual open house on Feb. 6 and Feb. 13 from Noon to 3 p.m. Our CDM Department Fellows, who are current exemplary students, will be your hosts.

They will be on hand to chat and answer questions. They’ll also share some of their best work so you can see a variety of projects from classes and/or internships.

If you have any further questions about our department, feel free to contact me at any time. Best wishes with your college choice, and I hope you find your home at Carthage and CDM.

Dr. Lynn Brownson Chair, Communication and Digital Media Department Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media lbrownson@carthage.edu | 262-551-6329 carthage.edu/communication-digital-media

cdm at carthage

In the Communication and Digital Media (CDM) Department at Carthage, our goals go beyond technical proficiency. Sure, by sharpening your written, oral, and visual communication skills, you’ll graduate fully prepared for whatever medium you pick.

But you’ll also closely examine classical and contemporary theory to make sense of this increasingly mediated world.

Majors

Minors

Communication

Communication

Film and New Media

Graphic Design

Public Relations

Photography

Public Relations

Graphic Design

unique courses Words and Images in Motion: Implement design strategies that focus on form, speed, rhythm, orientation, color, texture, and quality of motion.

Public Relations Campaigns | Crisis Communication | Leadership and Small Group Communication: Learn valuable skills for professional practice in each of these three new courses.

Interpreting Nature: Pair with non-designers to produce effective communications for local partners.

Capstone Project: Graphic design majors invite the public to view their final portfolios in a senior show, while public relations and communication majors present their senior thesis research.

outstanding opportunities J-Term Travel Thanks to the popularity of our January Term study tours, Carthage ranks No. 5 nationally for participation in short-term study abroad. CDM faculty take students around the world: Photographing Nature: Take digital photos of plant and animal species in Costa Rica and use visual imagery to communicate the value of conservation.

Sports Journalism: Report on European football in cities like London, Paris, and Berlin or examine the “double play” of Western impact on South Korea through the lens of baseball.

Collective Identity: Study the modern metropolis of Tokyo, its multicultural products, and the intersecting issues of identity, gender, and technology.

Scholarships If you’re a passionate, talented incoming student who plans to pursue a degree in communication, graphic design, or public relations, apply to enter the Communication and Digital Media Scholarship competition. Finalists are invited to campus to interview and present samples of their work.

Student Organizations Lambda Pi Eta: Join the campus chapter of the premier national communication honor society. Exchange ideas with fellow students and strengthen your relationships with CDM faculty.

DRAFT: In this graphic design group, you can network, attend studio tours, critique other aspiring designers’ work, and pursue projects with real clients. Each semester, the group organizes exhibitions to display student work.

PRSSA: Get involved in Carthage’s newly formed chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America for job and internship resources, networking, and leadership initiatives.

student organizationswhat

our students say

Lambda Pi Eta: Join the campus chapter of the premier national communication Unique Courses “The entire Communication and Digital Media Department

honor society. ideas with fellow students is excellent, and Exchange the professors in the public relations andand strengthen your Words and Images in Motion: Implement design strategies relationships with CDM faculty. communication majors make courses interesting and provide that fun focus on form, speed, rhythm, environments to learn in.” orientation, color, DRAFT: In this graphic design group, you can network, attend studio tours, texture, and quality of motion.

– Jaclyn Lindqusit ’19 critique other aspiring designers’ work, and pursue projects with real clients. Each Public Relations Campaigns | Crisis Communication semester, the group student work.

“I didn’t just learn howorganizes to draw orexhibitions how to maketoadisplay brochure, | Leadership and Small Group Communication: Learn I learned how to think differently about the world around me valuable skillsto for practice individual innewly each formed of in these PRSSA: Get Carthage’s and how beinvolved aprofessional strong, in well-rounded my chapter of the Public Relations threeeveryday new courses.

Student Society of America for job and internship resources, networking, and life.” initiatives.

–leadership Jess Thierfelder ’19 with non-designers to produce Interpreting Nature: Pair effective communications for local partners.

scholarships

Capstone Project: Graphic design majors invite the public If you’re a passionate, incoming student who plans to pursue a degree to view their final portfoliostalented in a senior show, while public relations and communication majors present their relations, senior apply to enter the in communication, graphic design, or public thesis research.

Communication and Digital Media Scholarship competition. Finalists are invited to campus to interview and present samples of their work..

beyond carthage

Located in the Chicago-to-Milwaukee corridor, Carthage offers unique access to internships and jobs. Our faculty have established ties to SC Johnson, Jockey International, Snap-On, and other locally based employers.

Beyond Carthage Outstanding Opportunities

Located in the Chicago-to-Milwaukee corridor, Carthage offers unique access to j-term travel Hiring managers consistently rank communication as one of the top skills they seek

internships and jobs. Our faculty havehave established ties to SC Johnson, Jockey in employees.

RecentofCDM graduates found promising jobs or pursued graduThanks to the popularity our January Term study tours, International, Snap-On, and other locally based employers. ate study inNo. graphic design, for public relations, in media, Carthage ranks 5 nationally participation short-journalism, sales, education, and law. termHiring study abroad.

CDM faculty take students around managers consistently rank communication as one of the top skills they the world: seek in employees.

Recent CDM graduates have found promising Join our Facebook group: Carthage Communication/Digital Media jobs or pursued graduate study in graphic design, public relations, Photographing Nature: Take digital photos of plant and media, journalism, sales, education, and law. animal species in Costa Rica and use visual imagery to

communicate the value of conservation.

Join our Facebook group: Carthage Communication/Digital Media Sports Journalism: Report on European football in cities like London, Paris, and Berlin or examine the “double play” of Western impact on South Korea through the lens of baseball.

Collective Identity: Study the modern metropolis of Tokyo, its multicultural products, and the intersecting issues of identity, gender, and technology.

fine arts at carthage 2001 alford park drive, kenosha, wi 53140 262-551-6661 | carthage.edu/fine-arts facebook.com/carthagefinearts | instagram.com/carthagefinearts