| School of Media
Mission, Purpose and Objectives
John Paul the Great Catholic University recognizes the sacramentality of the performing arts in communicating truth to global cultures. JP Catholic has therefore designed a curriculum to prepare students spiritually, physically, emotionally, and professionally for careers as writers, directors, producers, business owners, and investors in film, television, video, interactive media, and the stage. JP Catholic provides an academic, artistic, and practical environment for individuals who feel they are called to influence culture with Christian values.
In the words of the late Pope John Paul II, "all communication has a moral dimension.... People grow or diminish in moral stature by the words they speak and the messages they choose to hear."
The curriculum tightly integrates the study of entertainment media - creative, technical and business. JP Catholic aims to mold creative, independent thinkers and leaders. Upon graduation, these leaders will work tirelessly to create and distribute media products that promote values beneficial to the common good and that strengthen family life. JP Catholic seeks to develop creative students to explore and realize novel ideas that are acknowledged for their artistic originality, creativity, and profitability.
JP Catholic believes that communications media has a serious public and spiritual mission, and that solid Catholic creators and leaders can and must make a significant difference in the world. JP Catholic wants to educate those who concur. Possibilities for positive societal impact abound, but the possibility to do compelling work consistent with Catholic teachings that entertains, informs, engages, and is relevant to the societies in which we live is what drives our faculty, inspire our students, and mold our basic approach. JP Catholic will be a place where serious creative entertainment media is pursued, taught, dialoged, improved—and hopefully invented. The primary emphasis will be the practical instruction focused on creativity and building businesses based on that creativity, religion, classical literature, ethics, world history, and culture. Students learn to observe the world’s marketplaces for media and then target a media response that is both aligned with Catholic values as well as being profitable and sustainable.
BS in Communications Media - Concentration in Entertainment Media
The Entertainment Media student is exposed to the fundamentals of both liberal arts and to the business of entertainment, as well as to advanced coursework, directed studies, industry experiences, and team projects. Students are exposed to all facets of entertainment project ideation, development, production, and distribution.
Occupations for Which Students Will be Prepared
The BS degree in Communications Media with a concentration in Entertainment Media prepares students for careers as producers, writers, directors, editors, distributors, marketers, contract and advertising agents for film, TV, radio, DVD, and video product.
BS in Communications Media - Concentration in Animation & Gaming
Graduates can expect to acquire a fundamental and practical knowledge that will position them on the frontiers of the design and implementation of Animation & Gaming applications in entertainment and publishing, gaming and virtual reality and various other multimedia applications. Students learn the fundamentals of art and drawing as well as the major design tools, web applications, and the life cycle profiles of commercial product and services across the domains. They will learn how successful digital media companies combine technical principles with various novel market opportunities and business models to gain marketplace competitive advantage. Graduates will be skilled in Animation & Gaming product concept selection and design through launch. Graduates will expect to pursue career opportunities as innovators, leaders or entrepreneurs either in their own companies or with existing enterprises within the digital media industry.
Occupations for Which Students Will be Prepared
The BS degree in Communications Media with a concentration in Animation & Gaming prepares students for careers as animators; 3D modelers; web, graphic, interactive media, magazine; digital arts, educational media, newspaper, and gaming designers.
Program Learning Outcomes for Communications Media degree
- Prepare students to understand the dynamic complexity of the global entertainment media industry.
- Prepare students for the challenge to ideate, evaluate, build, launch and sustain their own media business.
- Prepare students for employment in public and private companies and organizations.
- Prepare students for graduate school.
- Demonstrate an understanding the ethical and moral challenges faced and resolution in today’s global entertainment media industry
- Demonstrate an understanding of the spiritual, social, and cultural context of contemporary entertainment media.
- Demonstrate fundamental understandings of the core skills of visual story and script development, producing, directing, editing, cinematography, production design and sound design, financing, marketing, and distribution.
- Demonstrate the ability to think critically, analyze written texts and visual works, express themselves effectively in written and oral forms, and to apply a Christian perspectives to their creations and meanings.
- Demonstrate team skills by working effectively with others in academic and non-academic environments.
- Assemble a fully developed video portfolio including detailed rights acquisition, story development, pitching, budgeting, packaging, marketing, distribution, and exhibition.
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