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Undergraduate: Digital Arts
- Program Overview
Digital Arts (DIA)
Digital technologies are reshaping all aspects of our culture; the arts and its related commercial and entertainment industries are no exception. The Digital Arts Minor enables students to explore digital production tools in print, Web, video, animation, game, CD, DVD, performance, installation, interactive experience, information visualization, and public space. In addition to production skills, the Digital Arts Minor builds critical literacy in reading and understanding images, sound, and information as well as in interacting in mediated social networks. It encourages creative thinking and problem solving, often cited as necessary skills for the 21st century and the pace of change in technology. The minor provides the education and fosters skills now crucial to being a citizen, consumer, cultural producer, and innovator in today's global visual and information culture.
This minor is particularly well suited for, but not limited to, students in Studio Art (ARS), Computer Science (CSE), Engineering, Multidisciplinary Studies (MTD), Music (MUS), Journalism (JRN), and Business (BUS).
- Degrees and Requirements
Requirements for the Minor in Digital Arts
All letter-graded courses for the minor in Digital Arts must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher. Completion of the minor requires 21 credits. Nine or more credits for the minor must be upper division.
To earn a Digital Arts Minor students must take:
- one Core course (category A)
- one Foundations course (category B)
- one Intermediate Production course (category C)
- one additional Production course (chosen from categories C or D)
- one Theory and Culture course (chosen from category E)
- two additional elective courses (chosen from categories C, D, or E)
A. Core Courses:
- ARS 225 Introductory Digital Art
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CDT 208
Introduction to Digital Media Technology
B. Foundations:
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ARS 205
Foundations in Visual Arts: Idea and Form
- ARH 207 Technologies of Representation
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CCS 101
Images and Texts: Understanding Culture
C. Intermediate Production Courses:
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ARS 324
Digital Art: Design
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ARS 325
Digital Art: Print
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ARS 326
Moving Image: Narrative Video
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ARS 327
Digital Art:
Web Art and Culture
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ARS 328
Moving Image: Animation
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ARS 329 Moving Image: Experimental Forms
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ARS 425
Advanced New Media Art
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CDT 317
Interactive Media, Performance, and Installation
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CDT 318
Movies: Shoot, Score, Edit
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MUS 340
Introduction to Music Technologies
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MUS 341
Sound Design
D. Other Production Courses:
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ARS 281
Introductory Photography
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ARS 381 Color and Light Photography
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ARS 481
Advanced Photography
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ARS 390
/
ARS 491
/
ARS 492
Topics (approved topics only)
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ARS 487
Advanced Directed Projects in Studio
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ARS 488
/
MUS 488
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THR 488
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CCS 488
/
CSE 488
/
ISE 488
Internship (approved internships only)
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CSE 102
/ISE 102
Introduction to Web Design and Programming
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CSE 114 Computer Science I
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CSE 214 Computer Science II
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CSE 325
Computers and Sculpture
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CSE 334
Introduction to Multimedia Systems (also
ISE 334
)
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CSE 364
Advanced Multimedia (also
ISE 364
)
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CSE 380
2D Game Programming
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CSE 381
3D Game Programming
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ESE 123 Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering
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ESE 124 Computer Techniques for Electronic Design
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EST 205 Introduction to Technical Design: Innovation and Design Thinking
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ISE 108
Introduction to Programming
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ISE 208
Programming II
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ISE 332 Introduction to Visualization
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ISE 340/EST 310 Design of Computer Games
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MUS 344
Introduction to Audio Engineering
E. Theory and Culture Courses:
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ARH 208 History of Photography
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ARH 308 Writing About Art (approved topics only)
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ARH 322
American Art Since 1947
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ARH 333
Arts for the Public
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ARH 336
Computers and the Arts
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ARH 344
Performance Art II: World War II to the Present
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ARH 345
The Moving Image in 20th century Art
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ARH 348 Contemporary Art
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ARH 400
Topics in Art History and Criticism (approved topics only)
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ARH 490 Senior Seminar: Topics in Art History, Museum Studies and Criticism (approved topics only)
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CCS 301
Theorizing Cinema and Culture
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CCS 311 Gender and Film
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CCS 313
Television Studies
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CCS 390 Topics in Latin American Cinema and Cultural Studies
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CCS 391
Contemporary African Cinema and Cultural Studies
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CCS 392 Topics in Contemporary American Cinema and Cultural Studies
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CCS 393 Topics in Contemporary European Cinema and Cultural Studies
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CCS 394 Topics in Contemporary Asian Cinema and Cultural Studies
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CCS 395
Digital Cultural Studies
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CCS 396
/DIA 396
Video and Computer Game History
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CCS 397
/DIA 397
Video and Computer Game Culture
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CCS 401
Senior Seminar in Cinema and Cultural Studies
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CSE 301
History of Computing
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ESE 201 Engineering and Technology Entrepreneurship
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ESG 100 Introduction to Engineering Science
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EST 310
/
ISE 310 Design of Computer Games
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MUS 300
Music, Technology, and Digital Culture
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THR 277
The Media Industry
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THR 403
Media: Theory and Criticism
Notes:
1. No more than six credits from any internship (488) may be applied to the minor. 2. No more than three credits from ARS 487 may be applied to the minor. 3. Pre-approval for appropriate 487 projects and 488 internships is required.
4. Pre-approval for topics courses is required (ARS 390, ARS 491, ARS 492, ARH 308, ARH 400, ARH 490).
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