
Bachelor of ScienceInteractive Media
From gaming to mobile apps to websites, and from entertainment to productivity to instruction, interactive solutions come in all forms.
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Whatever your passion, a bachelor’s degree in Interactive Media Design from Harrisburg University of Science and Technology can help you harness the technical, artistic and management aspects of this dynamic career to maximum impact.
The B.S. in Interactive Media includes the concepts of new media, interactivity, interaction design, human-computer interaction, digital culture, cyberculture, and areas such as interactive narrative, video games, social media, virtual reality, and augmented reality wherein user and machine both take on an active role. Interactive media is not limited to electronic media, digital media, game design or digital communications.
From needs analysis to deployment, HU’s Interactive Media degree program equips you to deliver interactive solutions throughout the entire development lifecycle of a project. The major exposes you to both the technical and non-technical aspects of interactive development. From mobile, graphic, rich media, web, and interaction design to front-end development, our program combines project management expertise with solid design and technology skills.
Here, you’ll learn what it takes to work with high-performing interactive teams. Our degree program offers hands-on, project-based instruction, and focuses on helping you apply your existing technical skills within high-growth career segments such as training, advertising, and entertainment.
This program also combines media and information technology and platforms, business acumen, and creative expression and prepares students to apply new media theories and practices in a changing digital and media world, combine interactive theory, media production, programming, web design and animation to create multimedia projects and productions, and think innovatively and creatively.
Program Goals
A graduate of the Bachelor of Science in Interactive Media program is prepared to:
- Research situations, compile data, and deploy evidence to support design processes;
- Integrate into varied teams in a professional capacity to produce high quality results;
- Use information to accomplish a purpose and communicate effectively and professionally to peers, clients and audiences;
- Evaluate needs, practice innovative thinking and create solutions that address explicit concerns towards specific opportunities; and,
- Ideate, design and produce engaging products, services and experiences in a professional manner.
Program Lead

Charles Palmer Program Lead & Associate Professor of Interactive Media, Executive Director, Center for Advanced Entertainment & Learning Technologies
Full Time Faculty
Associate Professor in Interactive Media Theory & Design
Program Lead & Associate Professor of Interactive Media, Executive Director, Center for Advanced Entertainment & Learning Technologies
Associate Professor of Social Computing & HCI
Corporate Faculty
Production Coordinator (CAELT) & Corporate Faculty (IMED)
Assistant Professor of Geospatial Technology & Director HU Geospatial Technology Center
Program Courses
This program requires a total of 50 semester hours: 26 semester hours from the core courses listed below and 24 semester hours completed in one of the following concentrations: Advanced Media Production, User Experience Design, and Purposeful Game Design. The semester hour value of each course appears in parentheses ( ).
2022–2023 Academic Course Catalogs
Get information about core courses, electives and concentrations in our current academic course catalog.

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Program News
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A peer-review paper co-authored by Harrisburg University Interactive Media Professor Dr. Kelly Boudreau was recently published in a special issue…
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Harrisburg University Professor Dr. Melanie Stegman and educational video games she develops were the focus of a recent article published…
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