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, the student 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
B.A.: 44
B.F.A.: 60
Visual and media arts foundations (12 credits)
The Visual and Media Arts Foundations offers the student a broad theoretical, historical and practical introduction to the visual and media arts.
| Course Code |
Course Information |
| VM100 |
History of Media Arts I |
| VM101 |
History of Media Arts II
|
| VM120 |
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.
| Course Code |
Course Information |
| VM200 |
Media Criticism and Theory |
| VM260 |
Introduction to Digital Media Production |
| At least one of the following |
| VM220 |
Writing the Short Subject |
| VM221 |
Writing the Feature Film
|
| VM222 |
Writing for Television |
| VM202 |
Critical Listening |
| At least two of the following |
| VM230 |
Introduction to Film Production (I) |
| VM231 |
Intermediate Film Production |
| VM240 |
Introduction to Video Field Production |
| VM241 |
Introduction to Studio Television Production
|
| VM250 |
Introduction to Sound Principles & Audio Production
|
| VM251 |
Audio Field Recording |
Specializations
| VM403 |
Studies in Digital Media and Culture |
| VM503 |
Aesthetics and History of the New Media
|
| At least one of the following |
| VM361 |
Computer Animation I
|
| VM362 |
Motion Graphics
|
| VM351 |
Audio for New Media
|
| VM461 |
Computer Animation II
|
| VM463 |
Graphic Design for Digital Media
|
| VM464 |
Programming for Digital Media |
| VM466 |
Digital Imaging for Photographers |
| VM424 |
Interactive Storytelling |
| Additional Art History Courses (4 credits) |
Advanced Visual and Media Arts Workshop
Students may apply to take the Advanced Visual and Media Arts Workshop. Two semesters mandatory for B.F.A. Optional for B.A.
For specific course prerequisites, please consult the Undergraduate Catalog.
