303574 v.3 Internet Studies Major

Introduction

The BA (Internet Studies) is about the human dimension of the Internet - how people network, interconnect, and creatively design the Internet. This major allows students to develop key skills and knowledge of the Internet as a social technology of communication and interaction. It combines professional outcomes, scholarly creativity and technological skills, with an emphasis on deeper understandings, as well as the chance for innovative, cutting-edge project work. The approach is interdisciplinary and develops skills in one or more of website design, online public communication, virtual community management, analysing political and social uses of the Internet. Because of the possibility in this course to link studies with other disciplines such as media, business, computing, and more, many options exist to create a degree program that suits the student to their individual needs and interests. Depending on their choice of units in the course, students will be prepared for work or further research in - communications, media and marketing, content management, Internet policy and regulation, online research and analysis, virtual communities, website design and development.