Our 120-credit program offers maximum flexibility, so that you can tailor your courses to fit your career goals. So, planning your course schedule, takes careful thought and arrangement.
In preparation for entering a rapidly converging media world, you should explore a broad range of media:
- Social and mobile media
- Media Graphics
- Advertising
- Radio/Recording Industry
- Public Relations
- Television
- Journalism
- Film
This “generalist” approach prepares graduates to take advantage of ever-changing employment opportunities in the media industry.
Students are required to take courses in theory, production, writing for various media, media management, and aesthetics.
The media industry values professionals with strong business knowledge and skills. This program, therefore, stresses courses in management, marketing, and business administration. The heavy emphasis on business administration has enabled our graduates to find employment in the general business sector as well as media-related businesses. Our graduates have this unique business background that other competing colleges do not offer their students.
Internships are crucial to studying and experiencing the media industry, and our close proximity to New York City, the media capital of the world, strengthens the degree and further prepares students for a highly diverse and competitive, rapidly changing media environment.
Juniors and Seniors can take internships for credit. Our students have also earned academic credit travelling to India, Paris and Russia to study the communication industries in those countries.
With a 24/7 news and information cycle in mind, emerging professionals need to understand and manage traditional and new media outlets, including social media.
You can prepare for these exciting opportunities by earning your Bachelor of Science Degree in Communication Arts at St. John’s. Offered by the Collins College of Professional Studies, the program prepares students for careers in Public Relations, Corporate Communications, Brand Communications and Marketing Communications, to name a few.
Students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in today’s technologically-driven workplace. Benefiting from St. John's location in the media capital of the world, New York City, the Communication Arts program offers extensive internship opportunities in Public Relations, Advertising, Integrated Communications and Marketing agencies as well as Public Relations and Corporate Communications departments of Fortune 500 companies and nonprofit agencies, too.
We invite you to learn more about the B.S. Degree Program in Communication Arts by exploring our program requirements, objectives and academic resources.