The major includes thirty-six credits in communication and digital studies courses as follows:
1) Communication Core (15 credits)
- COMM 205: Public Speaking
- COMM 206: Small Group Communication
- COMM 340: Introduction to Rhetoric & Communication
- COMM 341: Communication Research Methods
- COMM 460: Seminar in Digital Rhetoric
2) Digital Studies Core (9 credits)
- DGST 101: Introduction to Digital Studies
- one of:
- ARTS 104: Digital Approaches to Fine Art
- CPSC 106: Digital Storytelling
- CPSC 110: Introduction to Computer Science
- DGST 395: Applied Digital Studies
3) Electives (12 credits)
Four of the following, with at least two at the 300- or 400-level:
- 100 and 200 level courses
- ARTS 104: Digital Approaches to Fine Art (if not used in the Digital Studies Core)
- ARTS 219: Digital Video Production
- ARTS 226: Animation
- COMM 209: Argumentation
- CPSC 106: Digital Storytelling (if not used in the Digital Studies Core)
- CPSC 110: Introduction to Computer Science (if not used in the Digital Studies Core)
- DGST 201: Thinking, Hacking, and Making
- ENGL 203: Writing with Digital Media
- ENGL 245: Introduction to Film Studies
- ENGL 252: Adaptation
- ENGL 253: Games and Culture
- MUTC 100: Technology for Musicians
- MUTC 170: Introduction to MIDI Composition
- 300 and 400 level courses
- ARTS 316: Experimental Documentary
- ARTS 341: Multiple Imaging
- ARTS 454: Approaches to Video Art
- COMM 353: Visual Rhetoric
- COMM 357: Social Media
- COMM 370: Special Topics in Communication
- COMM 491: Individual Studies in Communication
- COMM 499: Internship (3 credits)
- DGST 301: Special Topics in Digital Studies
- ENGL 300: Principles of News Writing
- ENGL 301: Principles of Magazine Writing
- ENGL 314: The Literary Journal: Professional Practice in Publishing and Editing
- ENGL 345: Film, Text, and Culture
- ENGL 350: Electronic Literature
- ENGL 359: Transmedia Fiction
- ENGL 386: The Graphic Novel
- ENGL 451: Seminar in New Media
- HISP 303: Archives and Society
- HIST 325: Technology and Culture
- HIST 427: History of the Information Age
- HIST 428: Digital History
- MUTC 320: Audio Recording
- MUTC 330: Audio Production
- MUTC 370: Electronic Music
- PSCI 363: Mass Media Politics
- PSCI 450: U.S. Political Film
- SPAN 413: Advanced Writing