New Major Prepares Students for Careers in 'New Media'
Alma College has approved a New Media Studies major that will prepare students for work in emerging forms of media digital information and technology — from audio and visual arts to social media to gaming and simulation to e-text and Web publication
Posted: Sat, April 2nd, 2011 at 8:28AM
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Alma’s innovative PRISM project—Positive Routes Into Science and Mathematics—gets more students excited about science. It engages students in research opportunities not only in their first, second, third and fourth years of college but also in the summer prior to taking their first college course. PRISM is funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Graduate Profile
Monica Rentfrow
Graduation: 2008
Major: English
Are you in the mood for a snack? Or is it words and poetry you’re craving?
After taking a creative writing class at Alma College, Monica Rentfrow ’08 has an appetite for little else.
“I knew I had a strong interest for writing poetry when I left Alma,” she says. “I entered graduate school with a hunger for more techniques, experience and writing time.”