ABOUT CNM

The Center for New Media offers both traditional 16-week college classes and short, intensive classes in animation, creative and technical writing, digital photography, e-commerce, graphic design, programming, and web/multimedia design and development for both the traditional college student and the professional graphic designer or web developer. We've built a reputation growing the Graphic Communications department from primarily classes teaching layout and graphic design for print-based production. Reacting to the demand for skills needed to get jobs designing and developing web sites we've partnered with other departments at Kalamazoo Valley Community College.

Realizing students need more than graphic design to get those jobs, we partnered with Business Administration, Communication Arts, and Computer Information Systems to create a multidiscipline team to reflect how web design and development teams work in industry teams made up of graphic designers, web developers, back end programmers, creative writers, information architects, and project managers. Professionals guide the curriculum taught to ensure that students learn skills used in industry now, not 5 years ago.

To keep pace with the changing software, we are also offering intensive classes geared for professionals in this business. We know professionals can pick up the software pretty easily, but sometimes may want a knowledgeable instructor to take some of the frustration and mystery out of a new tool—you want someone to tell you why, not just how.

We're working to blend learning and training, students and professionals; we're looking to create community where there was none. This fits in with Kalamazoo Valley Community College's mission to be an important partner in transforming lives, in building communities, and in the economic development of this region

The Center for New Media at Kalamazoo Valley Community College
100 East Michigan Avenue
P.O. Box 4070
Kalamazoo, MI 49003-4070
269.373.7920
newmedia@kvcc.edu