MEDIA AND DIGITAL ARTS

We experience so much of the world through screens and there is a multibillion-dollar global industry devoted to creating what appears on them and shaping how we interact with them.

Are you a screenwriter or visual storyteller? A user experience or game designer? Are you interested in post-production editing or visual effects?

Whatever your career path, we’ve got a program that will prepare you to shape the media industries of tomorrow— because technology changes, but the skill to adapt will always be in demand.

#1 Film School in the Midwest for ten consecutive years according to Hollywood Reporter rankings.

Lena

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’06 Chicago, IL

“I tell the truth. As a writer, that’s my job.” At Columbia, Lena studied alongside professors who encouraged her to relocate to Los Angeles. There, her career has taken off with credits like Bones, Dear White People, an Emmy win for her writing on Master of None, and her own Showtime series, The Chi, which was just renewed for its sixth season.