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REQUIREMENTS

All courses for the minor in Digital Arts must be passed with a grad of “C” or higher.  Completion of the minor requires 21 credits.

To earn a Digital Arts Minor students must take 1 Core course (category A), 1 Foundations course (category B), and 1 Intermediate Production course (category C).  Students must also take 1 additional production course chosen from categories C or D, 1 Theory and Culture course chosen from category E, and 6 additional elective credits chosen from categories C, D or E.  Nine or more credits for the minor must be upper division.

Students are required to come to Rm. 4246 Staller the semester prior to graduation to report their progress and/or confirm successful completion of Digital Arts Minor requirements.

A.  Core Courses (pick one):

  • ARS/MUS/THR 208: Introduction to Digital Media Technology
  • ARS 225: Introductory Digital Art

B.  Foundations in the Arts (pick one):

  • DIA/ARH 207: Digital Media: History and Theory
  • ARS 205-D: Foundations in Visual Arts: Idea and Form
  • CCS 101-B: Images & Texts: Understanding Culture       

C.  Intermediate Production Courses:

  • ARS/MUS/THR 317: Interactive, Performance, Media, and MIDI
  • ARS/MUS/THR 318: Movies: Shoot, Score, and Edit
  • ARS 324: Intermediate Digital Arts: Design
  • ARS 325: Intermediate Digital Arts: Print
  • ARS 326: Intermediate Digital Arts: Video
  • ARS 327-H: Intermediate Digital Arts: Web Art, Design, and Culture
  • ARS 328 Intermediate Digital Arts: Animation
  • ARS/MUS/THR 341: Sound Design
  • ARS 425: Advanced Digital Arts
  • MUS 340: Introduction to Music Technologies

D.  Other Production Courses:

  • ARS 381: Photography 2
  • ARS 481: Photography 3
  • ARS 482: Photography 4
  • ARS 390-G/491/492: Topics (only approved topics)
  • ARS 487: Advanced Directed Projects in Studio
  • ARS 495: Senior Honors Project in Studio Art
  • ARS/MUS/THR/CCS/CSE/ISE 488: Internship
  • CSE 102: Introduction to Web Design and Programming
  • ISE 108: Introduction to Programming
  • ISE 208: Programming II
  • CSE 325: Computer Science and Sculpture
  • CSE 334: Introduction to Multimedia Systems (also ISE 334)
  • CSE 364: Advanced Multimedia (also ISE 364)
  • CSE 380: Computer Game Programming
  • CSE 381: Advanced Game Programming
  • MUS 344: Audio Engineering
  • MUS 437: Electronic Music

 E.  Theory and Culture Courses:

  • DIA/CCS 396-H: Video and Computer Game History
  • DIA/CCS 397-H: Video and Computer Game Culture
  • ARH 322-G: American Art Since 1947
  • ARH 335-G: History of Photography
  • ARH 336-G: Digital Visual Culture
  • ARH 344-G: Performance Art II: World War II to the Present
  • ARH 345-G: The Moving Image in 20th Century Art
  • ARH 400: Topics in Art History
  • CCS 301-G: Theorizing Cinema & Culture
  • CCS 391-K: Topics in Diasporic Cinema and Cultural Studies
  • CCS 313-G: Television Studies
  • CCS 395-G: Topics in Digital Cultural Studies
  • CCS 401: Senior Seminar in Cinema & Cultural Studies
  • CSE 301-H: History of Computing
  • EST 310: Game Design
  • MUS 300-H: Music, Technology, and Digital Culture
  • THR 277: The Media Industry
  • THR 403: Media: Theory and Criticism

Notes:

  • No more than six credits from any 488 internship may be applied to the minor.
  • No more than three credits from 487 may be applied to the minor.
  • Pre-approval for appropriate 487 projects and 488 internships is required.
  • ARS majors should ber aware that many ARS courses require ARS 154 as a prerequisite, although ARS 154 is not required for DIA courses