College of San Mateo is a great place to start your career in broadcasting. The curriculum and digital equipment offer real world experience in a professional studio or out in the field. Both settings provide high end digital broadcast equipment for hands-on training. CSM offers courses that help guide students in finding their best fit in the competitive broadcast industry. This is where they can experience what it’s like to operate a camera, design a lighting plot, run a multichannel audio board, write scripts, produce, direct, or be on-air talent.
Most broadcasting students begin their CSM experience with our introductory lecture course in Digital Media - DGME 100 Media in Society (formerly BCST 110 Electronic Media in Society). This class challenges students to examine their own media uses and dependencies while offering an overview of media history, development, theory, and media's effects on society. DGME 100 is a General Education course for all majors and is UC and CSU transferable.
- DGME 100 Media in Society (3 units)
- DGME 101 Writing for Mass Media (3 units)
- DGME 102 Media Law & Ethics (3 units)
- DGME 103 Fundamentals of Two Dimensional Design (3 units)
- DGME 104 Digital Media Career Pathways (3 units)
- DGME 110 Photoshop Fundamentals (0.5 units)
- DGME 111 Dreamweaver Fundamentals (0.5 units)
- DGME 112 TV Studio Production (3 units)
- DGME 113 Digital Video Production (3 units)
- DGME 118 Digital Audio Production (3 units)
- DGME 119 Radio Production Lab (3 units)
- DGME 122 Live Sound (3 units)
- DGME 128 On-Air Talent (3 units)
- DGME 143 Motion Graphics (3 units)
- DGME 164 User Interface/User Experience Design (3 units)
- DGME 165 Digital Animation (3 units)
- DGME 166 Web Authoring: ActionScript (3 units)
- DGME 167 Web Design I (3 units)
- DGME 168 Web Design II (3 units)
- DGME 169 Web Design III: HTML, CSS (3 units)
- DGME 170 Digital Advertising (3 units)
- DGME 211 Introduction to Graphic Design (3 units)
- DGME 215 History of Graphic Design (3 units)
- DGME 216 Intermediate Graphic Design (3 units)
- DGME 220 Typography (3 units)
- DGME 230 Production Design for Print and Screen (3 units)
- DGME 250 Internship (3 units)
- ART 200 Portfolio (3 units)
