Overview

Storytelling is at the heart of human experience. In the Digital & Visual Storytelling Pathway, students will explore the powerful role that digital and visual media play in helping to tell stories and learn to use various tools to that end. Students will cultivate skills of digital and visual storytelling, examine theories and methods of creative and ethical digital storytelling, and explore career opportunities in digital and visual media.

Students in this Pathway will gain experience using digital tools and visual production methods while exploring different elements of digital and visual culture. Through thoughtful combination of coursework, experiential learning, and reflection, students will learn to be critical producers of visual and digital texts and understand theories and methodologies of media processes and contexts.

Students who choose this Pathway will develop knowledge and skills in these areas:

  • Analysis & Interpretation of multiple sources of information
  • Digital & Visual tools of production, communication, and reception
  • Politics & Ethics of communicating with images and texts

Students on this Pathway might go into journalism, business, research, or the arts. They might become data analysts, web designers, writers, or reporters (for television, internet, or print media), and more. This Pathway is adaptable to a wide range of student interests and aspirations and is designed to help you gain confidence and feel empowered in your storytelling abilities.


Faculty & Staff

Ahmet Atay

Ahmet Atay

Professor of Communication Studies; Program Chair of Global Media & Digital Studies; Liaison to Digital Visual Storytelling Pathway

aatay@wooster.edu

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Matt Dilyard

Director of Photography

mdilyard@wooster.edu

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Jennifer Hayward

Virginia Myers Professor of English; Global Media & Digital Studies; Digital and Visual Storytelling Pathway

jhayward@wooster.edu

Katie Holt History Professor

Katherine Holt

Aileen Dunham Professorship in History; Latin American Studies; Global and International Studies; Co-Liaison to Digital and Visual Storytelling Pathway (On Leave for Fall 2024)

kholt@wooster.edu

Marina Mangubi

Marina Mangubi

Department Chair; Eugene and Charlene Derge Sussel Endowed Professorship in Art and Art History

mmangubi@wooster.edu

Greg Shaya

Greg Shaya

Henry J. and Laura H. Copeland Professor of European History; Global Media & Digital Studies;

gshaya@wooster.edu

Becky Webb

Pathways Program Coordinator, Global Engagement Office Administrative Coordinator

rwebb@wooster.edu


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Theatre and dance and global media and digital studies major presents interactive shadow puppet Independent Study performance

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Kyle Cunningham-Rhoads '12

Kyle Cunningham-Rhoads ’12 applies I.S.-inspired curiosity as sports analyst

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Ahmet Atay, professor of communication studies and chair of global media and digital studies at The College of Wooster

Professor Atay publishes new book about generational media and culture

Ahmet Atay, professor of communication studies and program chair of global media & digital studies at The College of Wooster, recently published Millennials and […]

Tyler Rak '24

Wooster student explores social media management at local theater during APEX Fellowship

Tyler Rak ’24 spent his summer working as an intern for Lyric Theater of Wooster researching small theater operations, managing social media accounts, and […]

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Requirements

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