Interactive Media Minor

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The Minor in Interactive Media examines the convergence of the media of television, film, radio and the Internet. The Minor offers an educational experience for students interested in the development of relevant content and the study of the efficacy of its presentation over the Internet. With the already unmanageable flood of information available, it is crucial to develop content that is desirable, usable, informative and manageable.

Why?

The retrieval of content from the Internet is entrenched everywhere. Pages are added by the hundreds of thousands every day judging by the amount searched through Google, currently almost 8 billion pages. Humanity is being buried in data. It is apparent that the next crucial stage is an improvement in the value of the data and not simply in its mass. As a major educational institution that seeks to raise its reputation and status above the better competitive educational institutions, the University of Delaware views the Minor in Interactive Media as an opportunity to contribute a major milestone. The balance between user and provider is the next important stage in the university’s coexistence with the Internet because better wiring will not create a stronger bond.

The University has a documented and publicized presence at the forefront of the use of technology and has expended significant effort and resources to provide student and faculty ready access to the Internet and its almost endless body of content. At the same time there has been little effort toward providing an academic focus on the development of that content. The Minor in Interactive Media will balance and complete both the use and the contribution to the use of Internet-related technology through the added emphasis on content.

How the minor benefits the UD student

The dual functionality of dealing with a subject while also understanding the dissemination of that subject over the Internet obviously makes a University of Delaware student with a Minor in Interactive Media better equipped and more interesting than those students who simply focus on a major subject. The ability to contribute to the success of a chosen field and environment offers immense personal satisfaction as well as enhanced desirability by graduate / professional programs and potential employers.

It is difficult to imagine many instances where an employer wouldn’t find benefit in an employee who had an understanding of the planning, development and production of Web sites. Because the development of most Web sites is in fact the combined effort of a variety of people working on a variety of tasks, a student with a minor in Interactive Media should have the ability to work within the required team environment, should understand the responsibilities of the various participants, and should be able to contribute in different areas and at different levels to the relevance and optimum usefulness of a site.

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