Arts, Media & Communications

This career path is focused on designing, producing, exhibiting, performing, writing, and publishing multimedia content including visual and performing arts and design, journalism, marketing communication and entertainment services.

While many majors and minors can prepare you for this career path, we find that students studying certain subjects have a natural connection. Common majors and minors related to career in this area include:

English, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Marketing, History, Psychology, Sociology, Digital Media, Philosophy

Use the Job Trends tool below to explore the tasks and skills connected to specific types of jobs related to this career path.

Career definition is adapted from the National Career Clusters® Framework.

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Marketing Your Liberal Arts Degree

As liberal arts graduates enter the job market, their direction may not be as obvious as students with degrees in more technical fields. For the most part, engineering or computer science majors know exactly where to target their efforts, what …

By Kerry Willard Bray

Survey Reveals Most Common Portfolio Mistakes Among Interactive, Design, and Marketing Professionals

For employers, it is not just about what a candidate’s work shows on the outside, but the quality that is represented on the inside.

All style and no substance is the number-one critique voiced by executives about creative portfolios, according …

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11 Great Jobs for J-School Grads—Whether or Not You Want to Stay in Journalism

With a degree in journalism, you can pursue a noble profession that’s essential to a healthy democracy and gets a shout-out in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But beyond the necessity of a free press—it’s also a fascinating, …

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