Undeclared – Communications & Creative Media
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.
Why should I apply as Undecided in Communication & Creative Media?
If you’re unsure of what to major in or aren’t totally ready to commit to one program just yet, applying to Champlain as Undecided in the Division of Communication & Creative Media (CCM) gives you the freedom to explore fine arts and emerging fields like 3D animation, and to try out different art forms, media, and communications fields. You’ll work closely with CCM faculty, academic advisors, and career advisors to select classes, navigate your artistry and media, and ultimately choose a major that inspires you.
A lot of students worry about applying to college without declaring a major. But at Champlain, we want each and every student to continually explore options and opportunities—and we’ve created an environment and a culture that doesn’t just support that, it encourages it. Ready to discover your palate and your passions? Apply Undeclared in CCM.
Why Champlain College?
Community Connection
At Champlain, casual conversations turn into life-changing, career-determining events. Your connections and relationship will run deep, thanks to our small average class size of 15 and student/faculty ratio of 11:1.
Try Things Out
Our experiential learning means doing and learning go hands-in-hand. The Upside-Down Curriculum allows you to take a semester or two to explore academic options in several majors and still graduate on time. We want you to love what you learn, and we don’t believe in making you wait to know for sure.
Carve Out Your Career
Meet your career advisor for all your job and internship needs. They’ll discuss your strengths and interests, conduct a series of assessments to help evaluate your personal preferences, and match you with opportunities that best suit your interests.
Support From the Start
Help will always be given to those who ask for it—but at Champlain, we try to make it as easy as possible for you to get the assistance you need, on your own terms. Between your professors, career advisor, and peer advisors to your academic advisors and your residence hall advisor, someone is always looking out for you. (And saying “Hi” to you in the hallway.)
I was drawn to the Creative Media major after being in the Undeclared in CCM for my first semester because of how much I enjoyed my art courses that first semester. The faculty were very encouraging of my work and ideas, which wasn’t something I had really experienced before, so it felt like the right major for me where I could be supported in my creative expression and then learn how to build a career out of it.
Or Design a Degree Yourself
But, if you know exactly what you want to do or study and can’t find one specific major that fits your unique goals, we welcome you to create your own major. The Degree Design Lab at Champlain College lets you combine different pathways into one, incredible roadmap to success. Seriously—the options are endless!
Learn more about the Degree Design LabCommunication & Creative Media Programs
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Major – 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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Major – 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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Major – 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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Major – 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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Major – 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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Major – 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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Major – 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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Minor
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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Major – 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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Major – 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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Major – 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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Minor
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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Major – 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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Major – 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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Concentration
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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Minor
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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Minor
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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Major – 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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Major – Undeclared
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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Major – 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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Minor
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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Pre-College ProgramsChamplain’s pre-college summer programs offer motivated high school students the opportunity to immerse themselves in a subject area they’re passionate about, gain new skills, get a taste of college-level coursework, and add strength to their college applications – all while having fun with like-minded peers.
This program is for students entering grades 10–12 and recent high school graduates.
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