Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts 11 courses 30 total credits
In the Master of Arts program in narrative and emerging media, you learn how to tell stories that aren't just watched or read --- they're experienced. In under one year, you learn innovative storytelling techniques, explore the emerging media marketplace, connect with the field's top professionals and develop critical media project management skills. Through hands-on learning, you explore the entire landscape of emerging immersive media techniques --- including augmented reality, virtual reality, extended reality, 360 video, animated graphics, short-form digital video and documentary production --- to tell creative fictional stories or create nonfiction journalistic work. You capture and create content for workflow in multiple industries, and you learn to lead teams of producers, engineers, writers and artists across different technologies. You build business acumen and gain enhanced insight into the research, development, and finance and business models driving the future of emerging media, which are central to the program. Delivered exclusively at the ASU California Center Broadway location in downtown Los Angeles, the program immerses you in a state-of-the-art emerging media hub. The building includes a state-of-the-art virtual production stage --- and ASU is one of only a handful of U.S. universities to provide a studio of this caliber. In addition, the building has a green screen studio that allows for virtual-reality productions and live broadcasts, as well as markerless motion capture. You learn and work in these spaces to create compelling visual storytelling for client productions and your own passion projects. You engage in courses that anchor content creation and project management with communication theory and current case studies, along the way building a cohesive portfolio of professional work aligned with industry standards. You also network and receive critiques from industry professionals whose work may inspire your own. When you complete the program, you are well-prepared to leap into creation, production and project management roles across the media industry or to pursue independent work. This is a joint program offered by The Sidney Poitier New American Film School and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
| Required Core | 21 credits |
| Other Requirements | 3 credits |
| Electives | 3 credits |
| Culminating Experience | 3 credits |
| Total Credits | 30 credits |
Required Core
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| NEM 501 | Emerging Media | 3 |
| NEM 510 | Narrative Development and Pre-Production | 3 |
| NEM 515 | Emerging Media Production | 3 |
| NEM 530 | Emerging Media Project Management | 3 |
| NEM 550 | Diversity and Ethics in Emerging Media | 3 |
| NEM 585 | Portfolio | 3 |
| NEM 630 | Emerging Media for Clients | 3 |
| Total Required Core | 21 credits | |
Other Requirements
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| NEM 520 | AR/VR/XR for Storytelling | 3 |
| NEM 525 | Virtual Production for Storytelling | 3 |
| NEM 601 | Short Form and 360 Video Production | 3 |
| Total Other Requirements | 3 credits | |
Electives
Culminating Experience
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| NEM 593 | Applied Project | 3 |
| Total Culminating Experience | 3 credits | |
Additional Curriculum Information
NEM 585 is a one credit hour course that must be taken three times, for a total of three credit hours. Students must complete one course from the Other Requirements list.
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