Department of Visual & Media Arts

Interactive Media

The specialization in Interactive Media provides students with the opportunity to produce creative and professional-quality interactive works. While the emphasis in the specialization will be on production, students will encounter various concepts of digital interactive media. Introducing web design, non-linear narrative structure, databases, and user-defined functions, students make innovative, artistic pieces for DVD, CD-ROM, and the web. Students pursuing an Interactive Media specialization are encouraged to look into the ProArts Consortium at www.proarts.org.

Credits

BA: 44
BFA: 60

Visual and Media Arts Foundations (12 credits)

The Visual and Media Arts Foundations offer students a broad theoretical, historical, and practical introduction to the visual and media arts.

Required Courses

VM 100	History of Media Arts I
VM 101	History of Media Arts II
VM 120	Foundations in Visual and Media Arts Production

Introduction to Disciplines (16 credits minimum)

At the Introduction to Disciplines level, students explore one or more of the department’s main discipline areas.

Required Courses

VM 200	Media Criticism and Theory
VM 260	Introduction to Digital Media Production

At least one of the following:

VM 220	Writing the Short Subject
VM 221	Writing the Feature Film
VM 222	Writing for Television
VM 202	Critical Listening

At least two of the following:

VM 230	Introduction to Film Production (I)
VM 231	Intermediate Film Production
VM 240	Introduction to Video Field Production
VM 241	Introduction to Studio Television Production
VM 250	Introduction to Sound Principles and Audio Production
VM 251	Audio Field Recording

Specializations

Required Courses

VM 375	Interactive Media

VM 375

Interactive Media

One of the following:

VM 403	Studies in Digital Media and Culture
VM 503	Aesthetics and History of the New Media

At least one of the following:

VM 361	Computer Animation I
VM 362	Motion Graphics
VM 351	Audio for New Media
VM 461	Computer Animation II
VM 463	Graphic Design for Digital Media
VM 464	Programming for Digital Media
VM 466	Digital Imaging for Photographers