Program Overview
Digital & Visual Storytelling Pathway
Learn to tell compelling stories through digital media, visual communication, and creative technologies while building skills valued across today's communication, creative, and media professions.
Create Across Media
Develop skills in photography, video, design, writing, digital production, and visual communication.
Think Critically
Explore the ethics, politics, and cultural impact of digital media and visual storytelling.
Build Your Portfolio
Gain hands-on experience through internships, creative projects, and faculty-mentored work.
Why pursue this pathway at Wooster?
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Combine coursework from multiple disciplines to build storytelling skills that complement any major.
Learn to create and evaluate digital and visual media with both creativity and ethical awareness.
Build professional experience through internships, faculty collaborations, and experiential learning.
Develop a portfolio that showcases your creative and communication abilities.
Connect with a community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni interested in media, storytelling, and creative communication.
Earn a Pathways Certificate that appears on your transcript alongside your academic achievements.
Tell stories that matter.
Students in the Digital & Visual Storytelling Pathway combine coursework with experiential learning to develop both creative and analytical skills.
Along the way, students strengthen their abilities in:
- Digital media production
- Visual communication
- Critical analysis
- Ethical storytelling
- Media theory and practice
- Creative collaboration
The pathway encourages students to connect classroom learning with internships, independent projects, research, and professional experiences that prepare them for careers in communication and media.
Ready to Share Your Story?
Whether you hope to produce films, design digital experiences, create compelling journalism, communicate through visual media, or strengthen your storytelling skills for another profession, the Digital & Visual Storytelling Pathway helps you become a more creative, thoughtful, and effective communicator.
Career Opportunities
Students completing the Digital & Visual Storytelling Pathway pursue careers in fields such as:
The pathway also provides valuable preparation for graduate study in communication, media, design, journalism, digital humanities, and related fields.
Key Areas
Journalism
Film and video production
Marketing and communications
Public relations
Web and digital content development
User experience and digital design
Business communications
Data visualization
Arts and nonprofit communications
Creative media and storytelling
Jennifer Hayward
Department Co-Chair and Virginia Myers Professor of English; Global Media & Digital Studies; Digital and Visual Storytelling Pathway
jhayward@wooster.edu
Katherine Holt
Aileen Dunham Professorship in History; Latin American Studies; Global and International Studies; Co-Liaison to Digital and Visual Storytelling Pathway
kholt@wooster.edu