About the College — IARSAC International University

Areas of Specialization

Journalism,
Digital Media Arts,
Public Relations and Advertising,
Arts Media Communication and
Mass Communication

Our Beliefs

At The College of Media Arts and Technology, we believe the best experiences are often outside the classroom. That’s why we work with cultural institutions around the around, so you can build that job-getting professional portfolio.

Our Mission

The mission of the College of Media Arts and Technology is to seek, inspire, and educate students in the technical skills, theoretical underpinnings, and the sociocultural context for the disciplines represented by the academic programs towards the goal of contributing to our own communities.

Our program is built upon a foundation of information literacy. Through our curriculum, students emerge with the critical thinking, collaboration, and leaderships skills necessary to thrive in their media professions.

Understand and exhibit the values, character, and habits of professionals in the field
Understand and evaluate both the local and global ethics of mediated communications
Evaluate and apply the principle theories of mediated communications
Demonstrate current design practices
Use critical thinking skills to solve problems in their field
Demonstrate industry specific written and oral communication skills
Apply visual and technical skills required to excel as artists and professionals in their field

Our Vision

To be a champion of creative excellence in art making and artistic expression and to offer reciprocal experiences to the United States citizens to support risk-taking, intellectual freedom and social responsibility, and pay it forward by extending our reach and impact in the global community.

Overview

The College of Media Arts & Technology (CMAT) is a science and technology based faculty with the aim of being a front-runner in creating a prosperous future for the information society. In our current era, computers and mobile devices connected to a global network enable anyone, anywhere, and at any time to disseminate information and interact with others. The explosive growth of this network has resulted in transformations in industries, businesses, education, culture, and everyday life, to a scale comparable to and even surpassing the Communication Revolution sparked by Gutenberg’s movable type printing technology. The College of Media Arts & Technology intends to foster engineers and researchers who will play a leading role in this era of change.

The College serves as a focal point for education, research, and artistic production in digital media, with special emphases in visual and spatial arts, electronic music and sound design, and multimedia engineering. The curriculum provides for an interdisciplinary experience, building on a core set of skills and knowledge, with an emphasis on research and collaboration in digital media systems, content, and interaction. In addition to the interdisciplinary breadth of the college, CMAT students may focus on specific areas of emphasis, according to their backgrounds and career interests.

The College of Media Arts & Technology was established for the purpose of providing education starting from fundamentals in information and communication technology, leading to advanced topics in content technology for producing and utilizing content that flows through networks, and net-media technology for supporting the accumulation and flow of content. Our aim is not to raise creators who will work on generating the content itself; but to foster engineers and researchers who will make an impact on society through their technological and scientific achievements.

The College of the Arts and Media is committed to leadership in pedagogy, creative scholarship, professional performance, artistic exhibition, and journalistic inquiry. The College prides itself on its high achieving faculty, and talented students who work hard to ensure that IARSAC International University serves as the heart of culture and media for the state and region.

CMAT designs programs for its students with knowledge and skills relevant to careers in digital media-related research and in artistic and technical positions in the media industries of the 21st century. The College fosters aesthetically trained media technology inventors of the future. It trains electronic media artists who can work with a high degree of aesthetic and technical sophistication to enrich and enlarge our cultural heritage. It prepares thinkers for advanced studies in media technology, leading toward academic careers in this discipline.

The College programs is intended for students who are interested in both arts and technology and have a strong background in at least one area of arts, or science and at least some experience in a cross-discipline (e.g., an arts area for those with engineering backgrounds and vice versa). Prospective students should be ambitious and curious about interdisciplinary research and intermedia art and should be interested in working with others on collaborative projects spanning multiple areas of expertise.

CMAT coordinates with four graduate departments: Journalism, Digital Media Arts, Public Relations and Advertising, Arts Media Communication and Mass Communication. Faculty advisors assist students in planning their courses of study depending upon their backgrounds and areas of interest.

In addition to program requirements, candidates must meet the university degree requirements found in the section “Graduate Education at IIU.” Master’s and Ph.D. students must be registered as full-time students in the program.

Each program in the College is designed to:

Offer scholarly research opportunities for all disciplines to engage students in theoretical explorations of all forms of arts and media.
Provide leadership in the arts and media by enhancing the excellence of traditional curricula, instruction, and research with innovative and imaginative programs that utilize new technologies, incorporate various media, and enhance cultural and intellectual environments.
Serve the University, the community, state, region, and nation by presenting high quality concerts, productions, exhibitions, and journalism
Inspire students to pursue excellence in their creative and investigative activities and Teach students with rigor and devotion by offering in-depth experiential learning that enables them to perform, create, and interrogate big questions of art, culture, and society with specificity and maturity, remaining open to diverse perspective.
Uphold the free expression of complex ideas.

Values

Collaborate with community groups and artistic organizations.
Seek out and support international experiences and perspectives.
Integrate theory and practice.
Embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Develop critical thinking and analysis.
Promote interdisciplinary research.
Adopt emerging technologies and a future-thinking approach
Create opportunities for student achievement.
Support the professional growth of faculty as artists and scholars.
Appreciate art and its role in society.

Why choose CMAT Program

At IARSAC International University, the arts, humanities and emerging technologies are integrated into everything we do. This opens boundless opportunities for you to move between traditional disciplines and creative expression while gaining the future-ready skills you need for a successful career in your field of interest.Here, you’ll imagine, invent and experiment in learning spaces that expand your artistic possibilities and creative practice, while deepening your scholarly knowledge.

The IIU’s undergraduate and graduate degree programs have these advantages:

Carefully designed curricula taught by nationally and internationally recognized and renowned scholars and creative practitioners
Collaborate with faculty and peers.
Launch your career in a globally connected world.
Small graduate seminars that provide a high level of engagement between faculty and students
Gain skills that employers value.
High-quality, hands-on advising and mentorship
An exciting and supportive intellectual community and an environment that inspires collaboration
Financial support and professional training for Teaching Assistants
Create exceptional work.
Use emerging technologies.
Refine critical thinking skills.
Demonstrated success in preparing graduates for careers in academia as well as the non-profit and for-profit business sectors