Undergraduate Integrated Media
Based on a “learn by doing” approach, Stephens’ Film and Media department prepares students for a career in the innovative world of converged media.
QUICK FACTS
- Complete a required internship such as
working for AOL, Marie Claire, MTV Studios, or the Austin
Film Society
- Help develop and produce Citizen
Jane Film Festival, Stephens’ annual
international women’s film festival, and participate
in the True/False
Film Festival
- Combine study in Business,
Graphic
Design, Creative
Writing, or Event Planning
- Consider the related majors of Digital
Filmmaking, one of the few hands-on production
programs in the Midwest, and Fashion
Communication, which prepares students to become
fashion journalists
- Apply your media skills while studying
or interning abroad as you create outreach materials for
social change
- Gain experience and class credit by producing Stephens Life, the College’s award-winning newspaper; working at Columbia Access Television; or hosting your own radio show or KWWC, our student-run radio station
- Earn a Master of Business Administration or a Master in Strategic Leadership in as little as one additional year through our Plus One Bachelor's + Master's Program.
B.S. IN INTEGRATED
MEDIA
In Stephens’ Integrated Media program, students are
prepared to become proficient communicators who can effectively
tell compelling message across various media platforms. You
will explore the quickly changing field of online media that
includes social media like blogs and podcasts, while learning
traditional media skills in print writing, and television
and radio production.
Students are prepared for success in today’s media industry
through a mix of hands-on production courses, media studies
theory classes; and real-world projects. You’ll gain
experience in online media, digital video production, graphic
design, PR writing and photography. In your senior year, you’ll
integrate the media skills into a cohesive project with work
on an online news magazine.
FACILITIES
Stephens students hone their journalisms skills as staff members
of Stephens Life, the College’s award-winning
newspaper. They also work as on-air hosts for KWWC, the student-run
radio station. In the newly renovated Patricia Berry Studios,
students create their own television content that reaches
an audience of more than 50,000 on Columbia Access Television.
Students have access to the latest and most innovative digital
equipment, including HD, in Stephens’s G5 Mac lab.
ALUMNAE
Stephens alumnae include successful professionals such as
Lindsey Trosper ’00, account director,
Barkley Evergreen & Partners Public Relations; Gayla
Daugherty ’94, Anheuser-Busch account executive;
Wendy Parish Anderson ’92, former Austin
Film Society public affairs director; former TV producer Lyah
LeFlore ’91, author of the books “Cosmopolitan
Girls,” and “Last Night a DJ Saved My Life”;
Susan Keaton ’81, Chicago Tribune
West Suburban bureau chief; Anne-Louise Wallace
’82, “Today Show” stage manager;
Paula Zahn, former CNN news anchor; and Jenny
Stahl ’05, AOL corporate events manager.
MAJORS