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Integrated Media
Craft stories that can shape your world. You will learn to communicate, uplift, educate, and create change by connecting with audiences through a wide variety of media.
Tell us a story
You'll explore the art and science of communicating across multiple media — including video, animation, digital imaging, photography, and radio — and gain confidence in your own vision. And you'll do it in Boston, with close proximity to museums such as the MFA, the ICA and numerous communities of filmmakers, multimedia artists, comics creators, and more!
Work on projects for real-world clients with a team of your peers in our communications workplace, Studio 5, or tackle creative opportunities through an internship. Boston ranks in the top 5 US media markets. You'll have countless exciting and rigorous internship and career opportunities at your finger tips. Our students go on to jobs in television, multimedia, content production and social media management.
There are also opportunities to work on student-driven media projects within Simmons like Commtracks, our award winning communications magazine, host a show on Simmons Radio—The Shark, or make a podcast utilizing one of our podcasting suites. Our students develop a keen understanding of all communications disciplines, from design to journalism to public relations and marketing communications, making them instrumental to any creative workplace.
Integrated Media is offered as both a stand-alone minor and as a concentration within the Communications major.
Required Courses (8 credits, choose two):
COMM121 | Visual Communication | 4 |
COMM122 | Media Writing and Editing | 4 |
COMM124 | Media, Messages and Society | 4 |
The communications department offers a program in Communications with concentrations in Design, Journalism, and Integrated Media, a joint program between Communications and the Business in Public Relations and Marketing Communications, a joint program between Communications and Computer Science in Web Design and Development, an Interdisciplinary major in Arts Administration, and three Complete Degree programs, which are entirely on-line and geared toward adult learners. The course requirements for these programs follow.
BA in Communications
Communications majors complete 42 credits in Communications, including 3 required core courses, 2 1-credit technology courses, 4 courses in their concentration, 2 courses outside their concentration, and an independent learning Capstone experience.
Step One: Core Requirements
All Communications students take a three-course introductory core:
COMM121 | Visual Communication | 4 |
COMM122 | Media Writing and Editing | 4 |
COMM124 | Media, Messages and Society | 4 |
Step Two: Technology Courses
All students complete at least two-credits of technology skill-based courses:
COMM110 | Introduction to 2D Design Technology 1 | 1 |
COMM112 | Introduction to Animation & Motion Graphics Technology 1 | 1 |
COMM114 | Introduction to Audio and Video Editing | 1 |
Step Three: Concentration Courses
Courses are broadly organized around the concentrations of Design, Integrated Media, and Journalism.
Students take 4 courses in one of the concentrations below, and 2 courses distributed among the other two concentrations. At least two of these six courses should be at the 300 level.
Design | Integrated Media | Journalism |
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COMM 210 Introduction to Graphic Design | COMM 120 Communications Media | COMM 181 Public Speaking and Presentation |
COMM 241 Design Thinking | COMM 163 Radio Operations and Podcasting |
COMM 215 Blogging and Op/Ed Writing |
COMM 240 Typography | COMM 186 Introduction to Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communications | COMM 260 Journalism |
COMM 244 Web Design | COMM 224 Storytelling | COMM 263 Social Media Journalism |
COMM 246 Digital Imaging for Design |
COMM 220 Video Production |
COMM 310 In-Depth Storytelling |
COMM 248 Type and Image | COMM 222 Animation | COMM 312 Health Communications |
COMM 286 Advertising Practice and Branding | COMM 262 Media Convergence | COMM 320 Media and the First Amendment |
COMM 333 Responsive Design |
COMM 269 Globalization and Intercultural Communications (periodic travel course) | COMM 322 Video Journalism |
COMM 340 Advanced Design | COMM 281 Content Creation and Strategies |
COMM 327 Culture of the News |
COMM 323 Digital Cultures |
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COMM 324 Social Media: Social Listening and Analytics |
Integrated Media Concentration
Students in Integrated Media complete the Communications Core, 2 Technology courses, 4 courses in the Integrated Media concentration, 2 courses in Design and/or Journalism, and a Capstone.
Integrated Media Courses:
COMM120 | Communications Media | 4 |
COMM163 | Radio Operations and Podcasting | 4 |
COMM186 | Introduction to Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communications | 4 |
COMM220 | Video Production | 4 |
COMM222 | Animation | 4 |
COMM 224 | Storytelling | 4 |
COMM262 | Media Convergence | 4 |
COMM269 | Globalization and Intercultural Communication | 4 |
COMM281 | Content Creation and Strategy | 4 |
COMM323 | Digital Cultures | 4 |
COMM324 | Social Media: Social Listening and Analytics | 4 |
Journalism Concentration
Students in the Journalism Concentration complete the Communications Core, 2 Technology courses, 4 courses in the Journalism concentration, 2 courses in Design and/or Integrated Media, and a Capstone.
Journalism Courses:
COMM181 | Public Speaking and Presentation | 4 |
COMM 215 | Blogging & Opinion and Editorial Writing | 4 |
COMM260 | Journalism | 4 |
COMM263 | Social Media Journalism | 4 |
COMM310 | In-Depth Storytelling | 4 |
COMM312 | Health Communications | 4 |
COMM320 | Media and the First Amendment | 4 |
COMM322 | Video Journalism | 4 |
COMM327 | Culture of the News | 4 |
Design Concentration
Students in the Design Concentration complete the Communications Core, 2 Technology courses, 4 courses in the Design concentration, 2 courses in Journalism and/or Integrated Media, and a Capstone.
Design Concentration Courses:
COMM210 | Introduction to Graphic Design | 4 |
COMM240 | Typography | 4 |
COMM241 | Design Thinking | 4 |
COMM244 | Web Design | 4 |
COMM246 | Digital Imaging for Design | 4 |
COMM248 | Type and Image | 4 |
COMM286 | Intro to Advertising Practice and Branding | 4 |
COMM333 | Responsive Design | 4 |
COMM340 | Advanced Design | 4 |
Our students take advantage of internships at arts and cultural organizations in Boston and beyond, building their skills and resumes and learning from mentors in their fields.
Our students fulfill their independent learning and internship requirements in a variety of ways, including recent placements at Mullen, Harvard Medical School and the Boston Ballet.
Our Faculty
Bob White
Professor
Briana Martino
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Erica Moura
Associate Professor of Practice
Kat Lombard-Cook
Assistant Professor & the Design Track Director and the Integrated Media Track Director
Luke Romanak
Associate Director, Student Driven Media and Academic Technology
Julia Barber
Assistant Teaching Professor
Stacy Clougherty
Adjunct Faculty
Ren Deacon
Adjunct Faculty
Ellen Grabiner
Adjunct Faculty & Professor Emerita
Kristina Markos
Adjunct Faculty
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