Digital Culture and Design

What cultural stories do we tell about digital technologies? What stories can we tell with digital technologies?

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Degree Type

Bachelor of Arts

College

Humanities

Focus Areas

Social Media Management

Web Design

Online Content Creation

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Contact Info

Sarah Lozier-Laiola

Program Coordinator, Digital Culture and Design

843-349-6941

achamber@coastal.edu

Did You Know?

DCD students develop hands-on skills creating compelling content across textual, visual, sonic, interactive, and physical media.

Why CCU for Digital Culture and Design?

Digital Culture and Design (DCD) is built on a foundation of critical making – a practice-based approach to learning that means students, in classes of no more than 15, will be thinking with digital materials through hands-on activities like writing code, building interactive texts, physical prototyping, or visualizing data. 

The DCD major is all about cultural storytelling about and with digital technologies: from the story of an interactive game to that of a website; from the content narratives crafted by social media influencers to the cultural narratives we tell about code, data, or AI; from the stories visualized by a digitally rich map, to the ways Photoshop, Illustrator, or After Effects can radically alter the visual story of an image or video. These are just some of the things you will learn as a DCD major.  

Where Digital Culture and Design Can Take You

Social Media Producer

“DCD provided me with the skills and opportunities to develop professionally and explore the avenues I wanted to pursue in the digital media field. I was able to dabble in all things digital media from graphic design, to video production, to coding, to website design, and more. As a result, I was able to build a wide skill set that I could utilize and take with me wherever I go and hone in on my desired career path. "

- Shyla Duff, BA in Digital Culture and Design (2021)
Associate Producer for PBS NewsHour’s social media channels, Washington, D.C. 

Visual Content Creator

“During my time in the DCD program at Coastal, I gained valuable experience with multimedia elements, learning visual storytelling tactics, and understanding social media, while significantly enhancing my writing and analytical skills. The things I’ve learned in the DCD program have carried over into my full-time social media work after college. I am currently working as a Visual Content Creator at a marketing agency where I produce on-brand social media content for the agency's clients. I translate textual concepts into visual images that drive engagement, meet marketing objectives, and represent each brand’s image.” 

- Margaret Lavendar, BA in Digital Culture and Design (2023)
Visual Content Creator at Crank Creative 

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