The paper focuses on how a university program enables students not only to make the transition from school to university but also to develop skills, which will support them as they progress through the complexities of university studies in a non-traditional English Studies program within the New Humanities. The program draws on diverse influences and theoretical perspectives to create a transdisciplinary text studies within a writing and communication program.  In particular, the paper considers how the program recognises that students are part of the “net generation” and have, perhaps, exceeded its grasp to emerge as a dynamic multimedia/multimodal generation – what might be called the M2 generation.  Students develop skills and expectations about how texts, technologies, writing and reading practices operate in the context of the dynamics of global and local communication.