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Learning in a Digital Communication Program 2Changes in the workplace due to the pandemic, the need for digital fluency, a new normal of virtual community and digital citizenship, and demand for skilled communicators drove curriculum development in an online bachelor of science in digital communication .We offer this paper as a case study for creative approaches to rethinking a humanities-based curriculum by revising existing courses, developing new ones adapted to emergent needs in the field, and upskilling current faculty.Careful research and analysis of related programs, employment projections, and developments in the field led us to design a program that reframed a humanities curriculum within a digital framework that integrates theory with practice, while preparing students to remain current in evolving fields and adapt to new careers through a lifelong learning framework.Students in the program cover history, theory, and global communication while learning data management, web design skills, data visualization, and digital storytelling or media criticism, with specific skills and capstones tied to career goals while learning to work as digital journalists or marketers, in the creative arts, or as researchers and critics of digital life.We endeavoured to ensure that students will learn what they need to compete in today's workplace, while preparing them to be flexible as these workplaces change.
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