Program Overview
Are you ready to turn your creativity into powerful digital stories? Do you have a passion for expressing your ideas through digital platforms?
With one of the highest graduate media-hire rates in the nation, Asbury’s Master of Arts in Digital Storytelling is a 30-hour online program designed for today’s digital storytellers and marketing professionals. You will learn how to leverage the ever-growing resources of digital technology. Asbury University’s M.A. in Digital Storytelling will equip you to stand out in a wide range of fields — whether it’s helping your brand market its products, move an audience to action, entertain and inspire, or effectively lead a team of communicators.
The M.A. in Digital Storytelling is a 30-credit hour program. In a flexible online format, students can pursue their coursework at different rates. If you’re a full-time student, it’s possible to complete the program in three semesters (Fall, Spring, and Summer). Other students, especially those with families and professional obligations, choose to spread the program out over two-three years. And up to 3 hours of credit for professional experience may be considered in place of a specific course.
This degree has prerequisites of courses or prior experience in Audio Production, Television Production and Single Camera Production.
Degree requirements to graduate with a Master’s in Digital Storytelling include:
Review complete degree requirements for Asbury’s M.A. in Digital Storytelling.
Culture is built on story. Lives are built on story. The Gospel is built on story. The M.A. in Digital Storytelling is an exciting opportunity for you to bring these stories to life in new ways, with emerging technology and creative expression that will shape the world. With our M.A., you can customize your storytelling expertise in areas like news, social media, film, and so much more to launch you into a professional career.
Asbury’s Master of Arts in Digital Storytelling is paired with one of the nation’s top media communication programs. Our program graduates have been involved in 450 nationally distributed films, and over 700 different television series. Digital Storytelling master’s students can take any of these highly sought after media courses or cross over into dynamic business courses as electives to complement their master’s coursework.
Ultimately our art and craft is driven by inspiration and creativity. We seek to glorify Christ, the Master Storyteller, by helping you merge your creative spirit with your work.
Asbury’s School of Communication Arts is the nation’s only ARRI Certified Film School. We have the best opportunities to help you put what you learn into practice before graduating.
From mission work to media travel and our annual Highbridge Film Festival (which sells out each year), gain unique experiences no other college can provide.
"The Digital Storytelling master's program helped me discover my voice as a creative professional. The program provided a solid framework for crafting engaging and compelling stories, while also honing my technical skills to create them. This experience transformed my career, and I cannot recommend it enough!"
The Digital Storytelling Master of Fine Arts Degree Program at Asbury is taught by industry leading faculty in the Media Communication department. Asbury’s faculty is committed to instructing students in the latest practices, with skills and experience range from decades in sports broadcasting to Grammy-nominated recording and writing and producing for top TV networks With experienced professors who have done the work and who are grounded in their faith, you’ll never run short of mentorship, inspiration and seasoned guidance in this exciting field of work.
Our program has one of the highest graduate media-hire rates in the nation.
Media Communication graduates have been hired to work on projects and programs like:
Our alumni also complete internships and work in media communication jobs at companies including:
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