Creative Studio Majors
Professional creatives do their best work in teams. Nine majors make up the Creative Studio Experience, in which you can work in a collaborative team, just like you will in your career.
Your in-house creative team.
Collaboration is the cornerstone of the Creative Studio Experience, and it’s a skill employers are looking for—we know, because we ask them. At Champlain, we believe that good work is worth sharing. We don’t mean just showing others, but including others’ perspectives and talents in our own work. The Creative Studio invites you to bring your best to a project that’s bigger than you. Whether that’s creating data visualizations for a website or shooting a commercial for a new product hitting the market, everything is on the table at the Creative Studio.
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Animation (BFA)
Master the art of bringing characters, environments, and narratives to life for film, gaming, advertising, and visual effects, and help shape the future of visual storytelling. In this expanding field, you’ll study the history and fundamentals of animated media while getting hands-on with industry-standard software and techniques used for 2D and 3D animation, digital modeling, and special effects.
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Broadcast Media Production (BS)
Create content for the masses and explore ever-evolving platforms ranging from television, radio, and online streaming. While you dive into media theory, journalism, scriptwriting, video editing, camera operation, sound design, and studio production, you’ll get hands-on experience working with state-of-the-art equipment to make a portfolio you’re proud of. You’ll even air your work on television before you graduate.
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Creative Media (BFA)
Position yourself at the intersection of fine arts and entrepreneurship with a dynamic and interdisciplinary BFA program focused on preparing you for a professional creative career. You’ll study industry trends and technologies while you build a portfolio of real-world, collaborative projects that highlight your talent. While you master your craft, you’ll develop as an innovator and critical thinker who empowers success and originality.
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Filmmaking (BFA)
In your first year alone, you’ll study cinematography and lighting, audio production, screenwriting, and the fundamentals of filmmaking. This highly collaborative program gets a camera in your hand straight away, and exposes you to all facets of the filmmaking industry, so you can discover and develop your distinctive talent in this competitive industry.
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Graphic Design & Visual Communication (BFA)
When there are so many options to choose from for any given product, how do you make yours stand out in a crowd? These are the kinds of questions you’ll explore as you build your creative talent in digital illustration, image editing, layout design, typography, iconography, composition, and communication. You’ll have your choice of concentration to hone your skills in either design, communication, or motion graphics, giving you an edge in your portfolio and resume.
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Interaction Design (BS)
This leading-edge major is as much about design artistry as it is about the study of human behavior, psychology, and problem-solving. You’ll craft seamless, user-centric experiences across digital platforms and physical interfaces and build extensive research and prototyping skills and a deep knowledge in wireframing and user testing to refine your designs. In the process, you’ll innovate with emerging technologies like augmented reality and artificial intelligence that are shaping the future of human-computer interactions and purposeful user experiences.
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Marketing Communications (BS)
A truly interdisciplinary major, Marketing Communications takes all the creative strategy and messaging you love about marketing and the foundations of analytics, research, and success measurement required to make creative, data-driven decisions. You’ll build campaigns for real companies and be hands-on with the latest emerging digital channels, testing out best practices and discovering how to share the right message with the right person, at the right time.
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Writing & Publishing (BS)
There’s a reason some say the pen is mightier than the sword—writing has the power to change minds, to inspire, to inform, or to simply entertain. The Writing & Publishing major is designed to develop your voice and use it as a tool for career success. You’ll specialize in either Creative Writing, Editing/Publishing, Journalism, or Screenwriting and dig into your interests while you build an expansive portfolio of work to share with employers.
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Minors & Concentrations
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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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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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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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Explore the production of visual game assets, developing creative confidence and building a toolbox of technical skills.
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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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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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Master technical design implementation at Champlain College, creating engaging user experiences through coding, prototyping, and usability testing.
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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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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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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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Study the creation of 3-D art for real-time media like games, virtual reality, and film production. Develop the artistic and technical skills needed to create high-quality 3-D models and textures.
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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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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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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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More Inside Creative Studio Experience
Creative Studio Majors
Professional creatives do their best work in teams. Nine majors make up the Creative Studio Experience, in which you can work in a collaborative team, just like you will in your career.
Creative Studio Faculty
Creative Studio faculty are hands-on guides who use experiential learning opportunities and collaborative real-world projects to help students build a strong portfolio of work.
Creative Studio Portfolio
Creative Studio Experience students graduate with a portfolio of work that demonstrates they are Champlain Ready. The work is imaginative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary, just like it will be in the workforce.