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  • Whether you’ve been working for a few years or are just finishing an undergraduate degree, the 10-month Interactive Media program will power your career to the next level. You’ll study design, theory and create interactive projects as you develop multimedia skills valued by a wide-range of employers. Brook Corwin '10 explains the importance of his degree

  • Interactive Media students spend January in countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Iceland and Portugal. Students work in teams capturing interviews, photographs, audio and video to help nonprofits build community recognition, increase volunteer efforts and boost fundraising by creating websites or interactive DVDs. Learn more

  • Each week, students have the chance to participate in workshops that build on classroom lessons, offer informal project critiques and introduce students to experts in the field. Want to learn something new? Great! Sessions can be tailored to student interests. Allie Boardman '11 discusses the graduate projects that helped her land a great job

  • Forty students competed for six spots to attend South by Southwest Interactive in March 2012. In this client style review, teams had five minutes to sell their work and five minutes to field questions. Follow and interact with the Interactive Media team in Austin at the iMedia 365 website

  • Students developed mock-ups of iPhone interfaces. They gathered information, created sketches and worked through multiple variations of their ideas. The final mock-ups were presented in class and discussed in multiple critiques. Bradley Mu: iPhone Mock-up

  • Interactive Media alumni work in a variety of fields all across the country. Ninety-seven percent of the most recent graduating class was employed within four months of graduation. Alumni land jobs in New York, LA, Boston, San Francisco, Charleston and Charlotte. Learn more

  • The program provides frequent exposure to industry trends and professional practices. A recent workshop provided the opportunity to chat, via Skype, with leading industry professionals at Happy Cog, Philadelphia. The Happy Cog team shared their expertise designing for CMS (Content Management System). Design for CMS slides

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A New Way to Learn

Elon’s 10-month, full-time program prepares graduates to think strategically across media platforms; plan and create interactive media content consisting of text, images, sounds, video and graphics; and manage information for interactive news, entertainment and persuasive communications.

Students learn from award-winning professors, build their own interactive media projects in state-of-the-art facilities, and help chart the future of media communication. All in less than a year. All at Elon.
 

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iMedia News

Qian Xu co-authors book chapter in 'Advertising Theory'
Communications assistant professor Qian Xu co-authored a book chapter published in “Advertising Theory,” edited by Shelly Rodgers and Esther Thorson and published by Routledge.
Elon Interactive Media master’s candidates receive degrees
Forty-one students celebrated the completion of the program during a ceremony May 17.
Rachel Johnson G'12 presents at Global Studies Association conference
Interactive Media master’s alumna Rachel Johnson ’12 participated in a panel discussion at the Global Studies Association’s 2012 Conference on Global Rebellion and Dystopia at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia in Canada.
Elon Communications students, faculty cover international event
An Elon School of Communications team is an integral part of the coverage of this year’s ACM – International Collegiate Programming Contest in Warsaw, Poland.
Sang Nam takes third in Korean writing competition
Communications assistant professor Sang Nam placed third in a Korean national writing competition for his poem titled "Scent of Ho-Nam."
Phillip Motley named 2012-13 Service-Learning Faculty Research Scholar
Communications assistant professor Phillip Motley was selected as the 2012-13 Service-Learning Faculty Research Scholar.
Don Grady elected to Accrediting Council
School of Communications Associate Dean Don Grady was one of the top two vote-getters on a four-person ballot to be elected as a representative to the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
ACEJMC certifies School of Communications, iMedia programs
The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications lauds both with its formal votes at an April 27-28 meeting.

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