Interactive Media & Animation Concentration

Explores ideas and arts of cultures that initiate and develop into the Western tradition. Includes an analysis of the basic characteristics of the art and architecture of these eras in the context of general cultural trends.

Development of skills for creating two-dimensional animation, interactive presentations, and websites. Emphasis on the effective organization and visual presentation of information through Adobe Flash and other software.
Prerequisite: Take AR-113 or AR-114

Provides a comprehensive, project-based introduction to industry-standard motion graphics and compositing applications to produce motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and web.
Prerequisite: Take AR-276

New or occasional courses that may become part of the department's permanent offerings. Courses capitalize on timely topics, an instructor's particular interest, or alternatives to existing courses.

Introduction to media technology, examining the impact of radio, television, newspapers, still photography, film, and the computer on the human condition. Trains the student to be a perceptive consumer of contemporary mass media by exploring how each medium codifies reality. Readings, screenings, and written assignments required.

Introduction to a wide ranging study of multimedia production. Students will learn audio and video production techniques and create media for online distribution.

Considers digital and technologically mediated environments as "mass media" in the tradition of film, radio, or television. Using a variety of approaches, including historical, sociological, economic, technological, cultural, and aesthetic, the course looks at questions such as how does the Internet codify reality? How are communities both created and thwarted? What are the characteristics of the global media culture? Readings, screenings, and written assignments required.
Prerequisite: TAKE CM-101

This production- oriented course focuses on experimental and immersive storytelling and the artistic cinematics possibilities of 360-degree video.
Prerequisite: Take CM-101 or CSE-125

An interdisciplinary study of contemporary theories of mass communications. Presents an overview of the impact of mass communication by considering them as codes, symbolic systems, and manipulative powers on both the conscious and subconscious levels. Reading, writing, discussion, and research are required.
Prerequisite: TAKE CM-101

This lab internship course provides hand-on learning and prototyping experience in the areas of the art, technology, and design of new media, and human-computer interaction.
Prerequisite: Take CM-101

The purpose of the project is threefold: to create an opportunity for a senior Media Studies student to apply creative theory to practice; to stress the interdisciplinary aspects of media ommunication; and to provide the student with a "portfolio" product or research project to use as a demonstration of his or her abilities.
Prerequisite: TAKE CM-101

The purpose of the project is threefold: to create an opportunity for a senior Media Studies student to apply creative theory to practice; to stress the interdisciplinary aspects of media ommunication; and to provide the student with a "portfolio" product or research project to use as a demonstration of his or her abilities.
Prerequisite: TAKE CM-101