Complementing any major, the minor in digital communication, information, and media (DCIM) is designed to offer students experience in digital media communication and information management. Students will learn how to judge which digital toolkits are effective in a variety of contexts and how to use those tools to advance particular messages and goals. Students will be prepared to lead in digital environments by gaining a combination of technical, analytical, interpersonal, and entrepreneurial skill sets and learning how to evaluate, organize, and produce a variety of forms of communication and information in order to advance particular messages and goals.

Courses in the program offer a strong theoretical background in interpersonal communication, information management, and media and design along with a grounding in real-world scenarios, projects, and missions so that skills can be tested and refined. The courses are offered in a hybrid format with half of the experience online to help students learn to transition seamlessly from face-to-face interactions to digital interactions with professional poise. A final capstone class helps students integrate what they have learned with their major or other area of interest.

Students may declare the major after successful completion of one of the 100-level or 200-level courses with a grade of C or better. School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) students declare the minor through the SAS myMajor portal, and School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) students declare the minor through the SEBS myMajor portal; all other students declare through the DCIM declaration form online on the School of Communication and Information website.

Students are required to complete six courses in the minor, for a total of 18 credits. Courses cannot be double counted towards the DCIM minor and for any other major or minor in the School of Communication and Information.

Requirements for the DCIM Minor

18 credits, or six courses are needed for the minor, of which five courses are required:

• 04:189:151  Organizational Communication Dynamics Online (3)
• 04:189:152  The Structure of Information (3)
• 04:189:251  Strategic Presentation Methods in Digital Media (3)
• 04:189:351  Leadership in Digital Contexts (3)
• 04:189:451  Capstone in Digital Communication, Information, and Media (3)

• 04:189:352  Self and Society in Virtual Contexts (3)
• 04:189:398  Special Topics in CILS: Digital Technology and DIsruptive Change (3) [Note that this course will likely have a new course number during 2015-17; check the SC&I website for updates.]