Curriculum for Creative Media Major
Your career in creative media begins now with Champlain’s Upside-Down Curriculum. Discover the difference that doing on day one has on your success.
Creative Media Curriculum
Our Upside-Down Curriculum is designed to prepare creative media students like you with a comprehensive understanding of fine arts. You’ll gain a strong set of skills in multiple media forms while tackling big-picture ideas. You’ll explore your artistic process by evaluating, deconstructing, and revising your work in innovative production classes and seminars.
The Creative Media curriculum covers a wide range of topics, including your role as a creative practitioner within your local community. You’ll consider topics such as how to market yourself and identify exhibition or publication opportunities. You’ll gain a rich artistic skill set, develop your own ideas about artistic expression, and push creative boundaries in unprecedented ways. Plus, it emphasizes a hands-on approach, giving you opportunities to engage in portfolio-building applications of media techniques, tools, and concepts.
As a Creative Media student, you will choose two focus areas — a primary focus area and a complementary focus area.
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First Year
Fall Semester
- CRE 125 Integrated Studio Foundations
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XXX Primary Focus Area Course (1/6)
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XXX Studio Production Elective - 100 Level
- COR 101 Navigating Higher Education
- COR 102 First Year Inquiry: Reading, Writing, &
Spring Semester- CRE 100 Making Art
- CRE 180 Making Culture: Seminar in Art & Popular
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XXX Primary Focus Area Course (2/6)
- COR 103 Navigating Your Information Landscape
- COR 104 First Year Inquiry: Making, Doing, &
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Second Year
Fall Semester
- CRE 225 Art and Social Engagement
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XXX Complementary Focus Area Course (1/4)
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MTH XXX Math Elective
- COR 201 Core Foundations: Making Meaning Through Science
- COR 202 Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Spring Semester- CRE 240 Creative Media: Professional Practices I
- CRE 250 Creative Media Projects I
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XXX Primary Focus Area Course (3/6)
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XXX Complementary Focus Area Course (2/4)
- COR 203 Core Foundations: Making Meaning Through Culture
- COR 204 Theoretical Perspectives
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Third Year
Fall Semester
- CRE 310 Art and Global Perspectives
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XXX Primary Focus Area Course (4/6)
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XXX Complementary Focus Area (3/4)
- COR 301 Core Foundations: Connecting Place and Identity
- COR 302 Field Methods
Spring Semester- CRE 350 Creative Media Portfolio 2
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XXX Primary Focus Area Course (5/6)
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SCI XXX Natural Science w/Lab
- COR 303 Core Foundations: Connecting Past and Present
- COR 304 Digital Methods
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Fourth Year
Fall Semester
- CRE 400 Creative Media Professional Practices II
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XXX Primary Focus Area Course (6/6)
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XXX Complementary Focus Area Course (4/4)
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XXX Upper-Level Elective (1/2)
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XXX General Elective
Spring Semester- CCC 410CRE Creative Media Capstone
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XXX Professional Practices Elective
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XXX Upper-Level Elective (2/2)
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XXX General Elective