Introduction to Multimedia Scholarship Companion Handbook for MDA 140 offered in conjunction with MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE MULTIMEDIA ACROSS THE COLLEGE PROGRAMS Introduction

With this text, we attempt to articulate, organize and, to some extent, inspire how multimedia scholarship – specifically, undergraduate multimedia scholarship – is practiced here at the University of Southern California. We wish to emphasize, however, that your MDA 140 practicum will be only an introduction to what is an emerging, and therefore exciting and innovative, field. Because we are limited to a single semester, and because multimedia scholarship involves several divergent skill sets (e.g., design skills, technology skills, writing skills, production skills), we have had to focus MDA 140 so that it is a more limited experience than, say, courses within the IML Honors Program. If you are interested in learning more about multimedia scholarship as a result of MDA 140 (and we hope that you will be), we encourage you to investigate the IML Honors Program, or to ask your instructors about other multimedia opportunities at USC.