Description
The undergraduate program in Digital Narratives at the Universidad de los Andes is innovative in Latin America. It is a program that explores the intersections between formats, technologies, media, and the arts to imagine expanded narrative in digital universes.
The fundamental objective is for the student to investigate, reflect on and intervene creatively and critically in the digital environment. It emphasizes learning the methods of journalism (tools, ways of investigating and telling), media narrative (television, video, radio, press, film), the aesthetic and expressive possibilities of some communication languages (sound, visual, digital, corporal) and the criteria, tools and practices of digital creation (such as networks and devices).
Applicant Profile
The undergraduate degree in Digital Narratives is aimed at the generation of digital natives who grew up when computers and the Internet had already become part of almost every aspect of daily life: digital citizens immersed in the world of media and images, hyper-connected and linked in dynamic networks.
The course offers tools and opportunities for reflection and practice so that students can become architects, critics and creators of the new digital media universe.
Objectives
The digital narrator will be able to:
• Tell digital stories (narrate), connect with your audiences (communicate) and impact the social environment responsibly.
• Understand the characteristics and uses of sound, audiovisual, written, body and transmedia languages to narrate and communicate.
• Construct innovative narratives that critically engage with today's political, social and cultural environment.
• Understand in an interdisciplinary way the theoretical and historical references that articulate languages, culture, media and technology.
• Recognize the existence and meanings of cultures (ancestral, minority, marginal, for example) in order to investigate and create other public models of social narration.
Study Plan
The structure of the program allows students to have a high degree of flexibility, since half of the total credits are taken in courses in General Education, electives, languages, and other programs of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Of the subjects specific to the undergraduate program, 30 credits correspond to workshops (writing, sound, audiovisual, body, and multimedia and transmedia), 28 credits to theoretical thematic courses (context, communication, and technology), and 4 credits to the degree project, which may have an emphasis on research, creation, or management.
Transversal workshops [30 credits]
In the workshops, through practical work, students learn to create and produce narratives in different languages and communication formats: written, sound, audiovisual, body, multimedia and transmedia. For each of the five languages there are three workshops: an initial exploration workshop, a fictional narrative workshop and a non-fiction narrative workshop.
• Written language [6 credits]
In this series of workshops, students understand and practice the uses, particularities, and possibilities of written language for public communication.
• Sound language [6 credits]
The digital environment has expanded the field of sound communication. These workshops work on classic narratives of sound language, such as radio and music, and other formats such as soundscapes, sound documentaries, or podcasts.
• Audiovisual language [6 credits]
In these workshops, students understand and practice the different ways of thinking and narrating in images and sound. The storytelling modes of film, documentaries, video, series, video games, among other audiovisual formats are explored.
• Body language [6 credits]
The place of communicative enunciation par excellence is the body. These workshops seek to have the student assume their own body as a device to narrate and establish relationships with digital expressive environments, exploring formats such as performance or monologue, with or without the mediation of other formats (live or video, for example).
• Multimedia and transmedia language [6 credits]
In these workshops, students understand and practice the way in which different formats and narrative languages coexist and intertwine in digital environments.
Thematic courses [28 credits]
The theoretical courses are grouped into three areas: context, communication and technology. These subjects seek to develop critical and reflective views of interdisciplinarity, emphasizing the articulation of digital narratives with socio-cultural contexts, the cultural industry, media history, political and power relations, entertainment culture and technologies.
The subjects in the context area [10 credits] address the production of media narrative in terms of its evolution over time. This allows us to consider the relationships of these processes with their environments and to propose angles of comparative reflection between the past and the present.
Courses are also offered on the functioning and content of the media sphere in relation to powers and their symbolic and material expressions in contemporary society.
The subjects in the area of communication [10 credits] address the products of entertainment cultures (such as television series, soap operas, films, documentaries, among others) and popular cultures (carnivals, popular festivals, folklore, among others). The approach to these topics focuses on consumption and appropriation by audiences and on the critical analysis of media and diverse narratives as autonomous expressions that also make up the communication landscape.
The subjects in the technology area [8 credits] study languages and ways of telling and producing stories in formats typical of contemporary societies that are permeated by the use of communication technology (such as animation, video games, data visualization, among many others).
Degree thesis [4 credits]
The degree project has two subjects: Degree Project 1 and Degree Project 2. There are three types of degree project:
[Research] Theoretical research degree project in which a critical reflection is made on an aspect of digital narratives.
[Creation] Narrative degree work in which a digital product is designed and created in a specific language (written, sound, audiovisual, body or multimedia and transmedia).
[Management] Practical degree work that involves working in an institution, media outlet or content producer.
Courses in other programs and languages
The undergraduate program in Digital Narratives is centered on knowledge from the human and social sciences. It promotes a type of research and creation of flow, processes, interaction and connections. Therefore, it emphasizes teaching through projects based on experiences of knowledge, research and collaborative creation in areas such as art, art history, music, literature, design, among others.
Of the 123 credits of the program, the student takes 21 credits in General Education classes, 18 credits in elective subjects (CLE), 16 credits in classes from other programs of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and 6 credits of Language.
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Alumni Profile
Graduates of the program are professionals who know the languages, formats, tools and references of digital creation. They know how to use this knowledge to research, narrate, communicate and work in a collaborative and interdisciplinary manner. They have an experimental, ethical and critical attitude towards their own work and that of others.
The field of work is broad and interdisciplinary, like your profile. You will be able to work with media outlets, digital and content agencies, public, mixed and third sector entities, and develop your own ventures. In these contexts, you will be able to lead and be part of work teams for the creation and management of journalistic, advertising, fiction and dissemination content, among others.
Contact Information
Contact:
William Hernando Paiba Paez
Position: Academic Coordinator
Email: narrativasdigitales@uniandes.edu.co
Phone: 3394949 Ext. 3138-2507
Maria Camila Olarte Vargas
Position: Academic Assistant
Email: mc.olartev@uniandes.edu.co
Phone: 3394949 Ext.2135