Complement Your Degree with a Media Arts Minor

These undergraduate minor programs are offered by the School of Communications Department of Media Arts and many are only available at the St. Louis main campus. The Geneva, Switzerland campus offers the Games and Game Design, Media Studies and Photography minors. The Tashkent, Uzbekistan campus offers the Film, Television and Video Production and Media Studies minors. The Media Studies and Online Content Creation minors are also available online.

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Minor in Animation Production

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18 Credit Hours

This minor explores the basic principles, theory and practice of animation to tell stories in long and short format.

Requirements for the Animation Production Minor
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Minor in Games and Game Design

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18 Credit Hours

This minor is designed to explore of the aesthetic, theoretical and technical practices of game design.

Requirements for the Games and Game Design Minor
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Minor in Film Studies

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18 Credit Hours

This minor includes required courses covering film history, theory, world cinema and analysis and criticism.

Requirements for the Film Studies Minor
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Minor in Film, Television and Video Production

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18 Credit Hours

This minor provides essential knowledge and skills for media production, including technical aspects and the industry's cultural and historical dimensions.

Requirements for the Film, Television and Video Production Minor
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Minor in Interactive Digital Media

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18 Credit Hours

This minor is intended to give students from all academic disciplines within the university an opportunity to acquire planning, design and coding skills needed to develop websites, apps, interactive exhibits and casual games.

Requirements for the Interactive Digital Media Minor
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Minor in Online Content Creation

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23 Credit Hours

This minor is designed for the student who wishes to work across platforms creating and deploying online content for themselves or others using a variety of methods and modalities.

Requirements for the Online Content Creation Minor
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Minor in Photography

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18 Credit Hours

This minor is designed to give students from all academic disciplines within the university an opportunity to explore the basic principles, theory and practice of photography.

Requirements for the Photography Minor

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