Welcome to the Department of Communication and Information Design

Information Design, our newest program, is just one of several Communications programs offered by Sage. In addition to this interdisciplinary, high-tech, B.S. degree, we offer a four-year bachelor's program for women at Russell Sage College in Troy, and you can still obtain an associate's degree at the co-educational Sage College of Albany. Additionally, we offer both graduate-level certifications and tracks within our MBA and Public Administration master's programs.

Program Philosophy:

Communications at The Sage Colleges comprises four distinct programs: the Associate's Degree program at the Sage College of Albany, the four-year Bachelor's Degree program in Information Design at Sage College of Albany, the four-year Bachelor's Degree program at Russell Sage College in Troy and the graduate track in the Master's of Business Administration program. The associate's program, the Information Design program and the graduate program are co-educational; the four-year program in Troy is for women. The graduate program is aimed primarily at persons without an undergraduate degree in Communications and who are already working in a profession and desire to specialize in public communications at the Master's level.

Though some students will choose to transfer or enter the workforce upon receiving an Associate's Degree in Communication from SCA, this program is designed primarily as the first two years of the Bachelor of Science degree in Information Design. As such, it provides you with core training in Art, Business, Graphic Design and Computer Science in addition to your Communication courses. This broad, interdisciplinary curriculum is designed to prepare you for the integrative, high-tech courses you will take in your junior and senior years at Sage.

The four-year program at Russell Sage College provides a perfect starting point or continuation for women seeking the baccalaureate degree in communications. The program builds on a solid core of journalistic writing and public speaking, and is geared to those who wish to pursue a career in public relations or other persuasive media. In addition to offering a full range of theory and skills courses, the program prides itself on its internship program, which places you in real-world settings that will allow you to hone your communications skills while making career decisions. Recent graduates are working for public relations firms, advertising agencies, television network affiliates, newspapers, magazines, non-profit service and arts organizations and radio stations.

The programs share the following goals:

• To produce a broadly trained communicator, prepared to meet the career challenges of a rapidly changing work environment.
• To provide state of the art technology, upon which the communications program is built, designed to provide not just computer "literacy," but computer "fluency."
• To imbue students with a sense of responsibility toward society, based on the understanding the power of the media is immense and carries with it tremendous responsibilities.