Mission Statement
The mission of the School of Media Arts and Design consists of five interrelated areas:
- To encourage a learning and teaching environment that emphasizes the creative process and is distinctly innovative, cooperative, collegial and challenging.
- To be recognized as a regional and national leader in providing a multidisciplinary program that embraces and integrates new and evolving technologies with the teaching of the traditional concepts, values and skills of our disciplines.
- To build programs that help students acquire the ability to learn independently as well as to motivate and facilitate learning in a team environment.
- To stress the development of a broad understanding of the foundations of our related disciplines while acquiring a depth of knowledge in at least one area of concentration.
- To support a strong program of co-curricular, extracurricular and internship activities which enrich an understanding of the role of our disciplines in society.
The JMU Journalism Alumni site is for JMU alumni who studied journalism, broadcasting or public relations or related areas at JMU, or who worked in these fields at JMU or after graduation. It is open to alums regardless of JMU major or current occupation.
MACRoCkumentary was produced by SMAD Digital Video students in support of the SMAD Scholarship Fund and MacRock. It recreates the chaos of hosting a grassroots Indie-Rock conference in a rural Virginia college town.
