Undergraduate Bulletin

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:

• 1 Core "A"
• 1 Foundations Course "B"
• 1 Intermediate Course "C"
• 1 Additional Production Courses "C or D"
• 2 Additionnal Elective Courses "C,D or E"
• 1 Theory & Culture Course "E"

A. Core Courses:

• ARS 225 Introductory Digital Art

B. Foundations:

• ARS 205  Foundations in Visual Arts: Idea and Form
• ARH 207 Technologies of Representation

C. Intermediate Production Courses:

ARS 324  Digital Art: Design

• ARS 325  Digital Art: Print
• ARS 326  Moving Image: Narrative Video
• ARS 327  Digital Art: Web Art and Culture
• ARS 328  Moving Image: Animation
• ARS 329 Moving Image: Experimental Forms
• ARS 384 Art, Media and Technology
• ARS 425  Advanced New Media Art
• ARS 317  Interactive Media, Performance, and Installation
• MUS 340  Introduction to Music Technologies
• MUS 341  Sound Design

D. Other Production Courses:

• ARS 281  Introductory Photography
• ARS 381 Color and Light Photography
• ARS 481  Advanced Photography
• ARS 390 / ARS 491 / ARS 492   Topics (approved topics only)
• ARS 402 Documentary Media Art
• ARS 487  Advanced Directed Projects in Studio
• ARS 488 / MUS 488 / THR 488 / CCS 488 / CSE 488 / ISE 488   Internship (approved internships only)
• CSE 102 /ISE 102  Introduction to Web Design and Programming
• CSE 114 Computer Science I
• CSE 214 Computer Science II
• CSE 325  Computers and Sculpture
• CSE 334  Introduction to Multimedia Systems (also ISE 334 )
• CSE 364  Advanced Multimedia (also   ISE 364 )
• CSE 380 2D Game Programming
• CSE 381 3D Game Programming
• ESE 123 Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ESE 124 Computer Techniques for Electronic Design
• EST 205 Introduction to Technical Design: Innovation and Design Thinking
• ISE 108  Introduction to Programming
• ISE 208  Programming II
• ISE 332 Introduction to Visualization
• ISE 340/EST 310 Design of Computer Games
• MUS 344  Introduction to Audio Engineering

E. Theory and Culture Courses:

• ARH 208 History of Photography
• ARH 210 Modern Art and the Moving Image
• ARH 308 Writing About Art (approved topics only)
• ARH 322  American Art Since 1947
• ARH 333  Arts for the Public
• ARH 336  Computers and the Arts
• ARH 344  Performance Art II: World War II to the Present
• ARH 345  The Moving Image in 20th century Art
• ARH 348 Contemporary Art
• ARH 400  Topics in Art History and Criticism (approved topics only)
• ARH 490 Senior Seminar: Topics in Art History, Museum Studies and Criticism (approved topics only)
• CCS 301  Theorizing Cinema and Culture
• CCS 311 Gender and Film
• CCS 313  Television Studies
• CCS 391  Contemporary African Cinema and Cultural Studies
• CCS 392 Topics in Contemporary American Cinema and Cultural Studies
• CCS 393 Topics in Contemporary European Cinema and Cultural Studies
• CCS 394 Topics in Contemporary Asian Cinema and Cultural Studies
• CCS 395  Digital Cultural Studies
• CCS 401  Senior Seminar in Cinema and Cultural Studies
• CSE 301  History of Computing
• ESE 201 Engineering and Technology Entrepreneurship
• ESG 100 Introduction to Engineering Science
• EST 310 / ISE 310 Design of Computer Games
• MUS 300  Music, Technology, and Digital Culture
• THR 277  The Media Industry
• 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).