Integrated Media
Uplift, educate, and create change through storytelling
Through Simmons University’s integrated media minor and concentration, you’ll gain confidence in your vision.
You’ll learn the tools to communicate across multiple media, including drawing, digital media, video, animation, digital imaging, web, photography, and radio. You'll also learn to harness this knowledge to develop media strategy and marketing campaigns to target audiences.
Our state-of-the-art facilities offer opportunities to create, collaborate, and connect. You'll hone your advanced aesthetic abilities and apply them to real-world projects. You may:
- Develop communications strategies for real nonprofit clients at Studio 5.
- Gain journalism experience at our student-run newspaper, The Simmons Voice.
- Make your voice heard and gain experience in broadcasting at Simmons Radio.
Our location in Boston means you will be ample sources of inspiration. We're close to art and cultural institutions like the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art. You will also be close to filmmakers, multimedia artists, and comic creators.
Why pursue a minor in integrated media at Simmons?
By studying integrated media, you'll develop a keen understanding of all communications disciplines. You'll gain knowledge in design, journalism, public relations, and integrated marketing communications — instrumental to any creative workplace.
Boston ranks in the Top 5 US media markets. You'll have countless exciting and rigorous internship and career opportunities at your fingertips. Our students thrive in careers in television, multimedia, content production, digital marketing, and social media management.
We offer integrated media as a stand-alone minor and as a concentration within the communications major.
Our Faculty
Bob White
Professor
Briana Martino
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Erica Moura
Associate Professor of Practice and Student-Driven Media Director and Journalism Track Director
Kat Lombard-Cook
Assistant Professor and Design and Integrated Media Tracks Director
Luke Romanak
Associate Director, Student Driven Media and Academic Technology
Julia Barber
Assistant Teaching Professor
Ellen Grabiner
Professor Emerita
Kristina Markos
Adjunct Faculty
Spotlight on Communications Students and Alums
Alumna Communicates Scientific Discovery at National Park
Julia Rush ’24 is the 2025 Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early-Career Fellow in Science Communication for the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park. We spoke with her about her love of journalism and the outdoors, and the essential training she received at Simmons.
Alum Profiled for Dedication to Making Culture Accessible
Olawumi “Ola” Akinwumi ’13MA, who serves as president of the Roxbury Cultural District (RCD), is a dynamic cultural strategist, event producer, and community engagement leader who is committed to celebrating communities of color through arts, culture, and storytelling.
Alums Honor Black Women Trailblazers with On-Campus Plaques
English major Jacqueline Jones ’79 and Public Relations/Marketing Communications major Gia Elie ’24, both members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (AKA), recently commissioned dedicatory plaques to honor three Simmons alums who trailblazed the domains of health care, civil rights, and women’s history. We spoke with them about honoring historic Black alumnae/i and relishing lifelong sisterhood through AKA.
Computer Science Researchers Develop Humanitarian Software
As part of Simmons’ Faculty-Student Collaborative Fellowship program, computer science majors Maleehah Africawala ’25, Fayza Beshir ’25, Emily Douglas ’25, and Megan McNamara ’25 worked under the supervision of Professor Nanette Veilleux to develop humanitarian software for Simmons’ REEF Support Center.
Honing Hands-on Editing and Interdisciplinary Journalism
Alicia Guzman ’25 reflects on the supportive faculty members she found at Simmons, her favorite courses, the research projects she conducted, and how she became inspired to pursue a media studies degree in graduate school.
Sexual Health Research, Travel, and Community Involvement
Angie O'Connor ’25, a first-generation college student, reflects on her four years at Simmons — doing research, studying abroad, and being involved with several affinity organizations.
What is Interaction Design?
All designers aspire to engage and delight their users. Interaction Design, or IxD, seeks to create optimal conditions for engagement between people and products — both digital and physical.
Studio 5: A Student-owned Curriculum
Studio 5 constitutes the senior Capstone project for communications and public relations/marketing communications majors at Simmons. We take a closer look at the hands-on, experiential learning model of Studio 5, Simmons’ student-run communications agency.