About Digital Media Studies at UDM

B.A. in Digital Media Studies

Digital Media Studies is a unique, interdisciplinary program that combines explorations in design as well as critique of our digital culture and its’ global and personal impact. Students in the program are encouraged to discover and develop their unique ‘voice’ within our digital culture through exploring and critiquing the tool of technology.

Some of the avenues DMS students explore are:

• video and video game design,
• web and multimedia development,
• animation,
• video production,
• and the history, theory and criticism of media.

The program is designed for students who want to pursue many areas of study while learning key skills to shape our technological culture.

DMS courses include courses in: English, Design, History, Architecture, Computer Information Systems and Communication Studies.

In addition, through the Coop program, Digital Media Studies prepares students for careers in film and media production, web development, advertising, education, as well as endless entrepreneurial possibilities. 

Digital Media Mission

Digital Media Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy within the School of Architecture provides an interdisciplinary base within a structure of the design studio as well as a project-based course of study that stresses a balance of digital media production with media criticism and contemporary critical theory.