'New Media' at IUPUI

What's "New Media?" The state's first program in the discipline began in 1998, joining the expertise of six research schools at IUPUI.

In 1998, six research schools at IUPUI joined forces to create Indiana's first and one of the nation's few comprehensive undergraduate and graduate degree programs in new media, aimed at helping students and professionals master the challenges of the information age.

The six schools included the IU schools of Music, Library and Information Sciences, Journalism and the Herron School of Art, along with the Purdue schools of Engineering and Technology, and Science.

The term "new media" refers to rapidly evolving forms of film, graphics, text and audio communications, such as the Internet, CD-ROM and multimedia databases. New media also combines images, sounds and text in new ways, changing how users experience and interact with communication and information.

The IUPUI New Media Program was proposed to bridge the gap between the teaching of "traditional" media skills--in disciplines such as journalism and art--and computer-based media skills. Similar programs at other colleges and universities are commonly nested within computer science, art or journalism programs.

An interdisciplinary collaboration uniquely defines IUPUI's New Media Program. Its entirely new curriculum bridges the gap between converging disciplines to create a new, dynamic, multidisciplinary area of study.

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