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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Visual Communication, Digital and Media Arts (VCDMA) Digital Cinema & Time-Based Media Concentration, BS
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The Digital Cinema & Time Based Media concentration focuses primarily digital (narrative) video/film production, video and time-based art and film. Students will be introduced to writing, producing, directing and editing/compositing for various new and time-based, digital media and web-based media and to cinema and independent film-making and production in general. Students will be introduced to writing, producing, directing and editing/compositing for various new media and digital media formats; and to the world of cinema and independent film-making in general. The objectives of the new concentration are as to prepare graduates to enter a career in visual communication with a focus on digital video, film and other time-based media. They will also be empowered to continue their success and studies at the graduate level and beyond.
Expected student learning outcomes
After successful completion of coursework, portfolio reviews, exhibitions, internships and senior thesis projects, students will be able to:
- Organize the advanced elements of the visual language creating harmonious and unique designs for advertisement and communication
- Demonstrate the organizational principles that underline the effective manipulation of the optical elements over time in 2D and 3D space
- Demonstrate a full command of a variety of software packages and develop creative and effective problem-solving skills
- Apply techniques and concepts in cinema studies, video/film production, editing and compositing
- Apply typography, elements and principles of design to digital video/film projects
- Create projects using advanced cinema, narrative video and digital video/imaging techniques
- Design and utilize projects incorporating sound processing, digital video, animation, motion graphics and editing software
- Research, critique and discuss the work by professional film/video makers, designers, visual artists, web artists, animators, and others who use digital video and technologies in their work
- Apply basic digital video processing techniques
- Apply file management, data storage options including import/export/publishing, codecs; file formats for video
- Assemble a cumulative portfolio or demo reel
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General Education And Institutional Requirements
See the full list of University General Education and Institutional Requirements for all options. English Composition (6 semester hours)
Arts and Humanities (6 semester hours)
- ____ ___ Arts and Humanities Electives 3 Credits
- ____ ___ Arts and Humanities Electives 3 Credits
Sciences (7-8 semester hours; at least one of which shall be a laboratory course)
- ____ ___ Science Elective 3/4 Credits
- ____ ___ Science Elective w/laboratory course 4 Credits
Mathematics (3 semester hours)
Social & Behavioral Sciences (6 semester hours)
Technology (3 semester hours)
- ____ ___ COSC 110 3 Credits
- ____ ___ COSC 111 3 Credits
- ____ ___ COSC 112 3 Credits
- ____ ___ COSC 113 3 Credits
Free General Education Electives (9 semester hours)
Free General Education Electives: 9 semester credits for Bachelor of Science (BS) degree; 12 semester credits of foreign language for Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.
Selected courses chosen from any category within the General Education Course List. See advisor and refer to catalog for approved courses.
Total General Education Requirements: 40-41
Institutional Requirements (6 semester hours)
Freshman Seminar/Information Literacy Total Institutional Requirements: 6
Fine Arts Core Requirements (27 semester hours)
Foreign Language (12 semester hours for BA Degree)
Music Requirements Required Courses (28 semester hours)
Students who major in Fine Arts with a concentration in Music are required to take the following courses as part of their core, which cannot be substituted for others and not be used to satisfy and Arts and Humanities Gen Ed requirement.
Music Technology Required Course (28 semesters hours)
Prerequisite
Fine Arts Music and Music Technology Concentration Majors. Fine Arts Music Concentration Majors are expected to participate on at least five seminars and receive a satisfactory grade. All music students are required to attend each scheduled seminar (two per semester).
Art (Studio) Requirements
Students who major in Fine Arts with a concentration in Art (Studio) are required to take the following courses, as part of their core, which cannot be substituted for others and not be used to satisfy and Arts and Humanities Gen Ed requirement. Students with an Art (Studio) Concentration cannot use ART 299, Art Survey, as an art history course in any part of their curriculum.
Art Foundation & Art History Requirements
Art Foundation & Art History Requirements
Notes: Also Required
Passing all VCDMA major courses enrolled, future w/grade of “C” or better
English Proficiency Exam (Pass/Fail) ____
Faculty Portfolio Review I (VCDM 219) ____
Faculty Portfolio Review II (VCDM 419) ____
Internship in Visual Communication VCDM 491) ____ When & Where: ____
Senior Thesis/Exhibition (VCDM 498) 10-20 works of art.design, media, fashion, short films/animation, etc.
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