Course Catalogs

Multimedia, Photography and Design, MS

Contact

Ken Harper, Program Director
315-443-6131
kharpe01@syr.edu

Faculty

Seth Gitner, Ken Harper, Gregory Heisler, Paula Nelson, Milton Santiago, Michael Snyder, Renée Stevens, Bruce Strong, Claudia Strong,  Jason Webb

Program Description

The Multimedia, Photography and Design graduate degree is for students who want to customize their education around their career objectives. The program offers tracks in Cinematography, Photography, and Graphic Design , and students take a foundational and an advanced course in their area of focus. Students then select electives to either deepen that area of expertise or broaden their knowledge base and skill sets into complementary areas. To work with publications, corporations and non-profit organizations on real-world projects, the program encourages collaboration among students, faculty and professionals. To augment the emphasis on visual communication, the program also includes communications research, media law, visual communications theory and current business practices. The course work for this program may be completed in 12 or 18 months.

This 34-credit program leads to a Master of Science (M.S.) in Multimedia, Photography and Design.

Admission

A portfolio is required for admission into the Master’s program and should be sent separately to Associate Professor Ken Harper, Graduate Program Director, Visual Communications Department. Images should be presented on a personal website, cloud drive ,or through social media channels.

Please send relevant URLs to Professor Stevens at rcsteven@syr.edu.  If you do not have some type of portfolio, GRE test scores must be submitted instead.