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What does it mean to be “literate” in the digital age? Where do you get your information? How accurate are your sources? How well do you read a screen? How well does that screen read you?

The success of any public or private company, all organizations large or small, can depend on their communication resources, and NJIT’s Communication and Media program provides a uniquely progressive and technologically proficient education designed to match the best students with key professional positions in markets that continue to be crucial to the twenty-first-century global economy.

We offer students the opportunity to gain knowledge, technical skills, and expertise that will allow graduates to build independent careers by making them independent thinkers. Over 98 percent of our graduates find placement in top executive and management offices in the field of their choice within one year of graduation.

With its five specializations and variety of concentrations, the program serves as the basis for a number of professions or graduate school.

The ability to communicate and be creative will continue to be highly prized in our society. Communication in an assortment of roles is a greatly rewarding and necessary activity in society.

The Degree and Specializations

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The Communication and Media program’s Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) stresses the humanistic; the Bachelor of Science degree (BS) stresses the technological. 

The program entails study in one of five disciplinary areas:

• Media Arts, with possible concentrations in Web Design, Television, Film and Video, Fine Arts, Graphic Arts and Design, and Media Studies.
• Professional and Technical Communication
• Journalism.
• Theatre Arts
• Digital Expression with a focus on producing independent creative work in digital media.

Specializations and Courses

With our variety of concentrations, the program also serves as an incredibly rich foundation for graduate-level research and to pursue further important projects at leading schools across the country.

Core Courses in Communication and Media

For the program catalog listing, BA | BS.

Queries should be directed to hss@njit.edu or the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 973-596-3266.