Program Details
The BMPD offers a combination of intensive hands-on workshops and lecture courses that will provide you with a strong foundation in writing, developing, creating and producing fact-based narratives across various digital media formats. Develop skills in storytelling, computer programming, web design, video production, data management and visual communication. Build fundamental programming, online design skills, and thinking in the development and application of narratives. Design shapes how and what information is delivered to audiences, making “story” and “design” inseparable.
Learn the theories and ethics behind storytelling through courses focused on how different media can be used to increase public knowledge, awareness and civic engagement. BMPD will prepare you to ethically adapt and incorporate new and emerging technologies into your storytelling practices.
Small Class Sizes and Industry Collaboration
Many of your BMPD courses will focus on hands-on experiential learning within small class sections of under 30 students and include access to industry-standard software and equipment.
Interdisciplinary Program
BMPD is a collaborative and interdisciplinary degree between the Journalism program and the School of Information Technology. You’ll incorporate journalistic storytelling skills with design and programming skills and be at the forefront of transforming the ways we talk to each other and immerse ourselves in fact-based digital narratives.
Work Experience
The Co-op option allows you to work for 12 months starting in third year with media companies, online design and production houses, non-profit organizations and NGOs, corporations and governments in Ottawa and across the country. In fourth year, you will participate in a year-long Capstone project, working in a group to collaborate with a partner organization from the community to develop a large digital media project.
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Career Outcomes
Explore your passions, refine new skills and discover the career that’s right for you.
The opportunities for BMPD graduates are endless, especially so with organizations, corporations, charities, governments, media companies, educational and research institutions all telling their stories online. The skills and knowledge you’ll gain are increasingly valuable for those looking to tell digital stories.
Sample Courses
ITEC 1005 - Web Development
Introduction to Web development. Combining graphics, text, audio, and video to create Web sites; developing different, major working Web sites on an individual basis and in groups, using valid HTML5, cascading style sheets (CSS3), JavaScript and XML structures.
MPAD 2003 - Introductory Data Storytelling
Governments use data for tracking. Numbers guide public policy and can become powerful and important stories. Students will gain a theoretical understanding of the promise and pitfalls of data availability alongside the practical skills needed for powerful data-based storytelling.
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