Syracuse University’s Department of Transmedia, positioned within SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, is a major academic center for the education of media arts professionals. The Department of Transmedia offers bachelor of fine arts (BFA) and master of fine arts (MFA) degrees in art photography, art video, computer art, and film. These degree programs offer rewarding studio experiences in well-equipped facilities, simultaneously integrated with rigorous academic studies, challenging curricula immersing students in media arts history, theory and contemporary issue courses, comprehensive and diverse. SU’s transmedia students also benefit from elective studio and academic opportunities in the School of Art and Design and the College of Visual and Performing Arts as well as the rest of SU, including the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, School of Information Studies, the English and writing programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

The Department of Transmedia is comprised of 12 full-time faculty members (complemented by approximately the same number of adjunct instructors) who serve approximately 250 undergraduate and graduate students.