Media Arts, BFA

The degree in Media Arts builds on studio fundamentals to explore Animation, Digital Filmmaking, and Photography. Course design balances competitive industry standards with traditional practice drawn from the study of World Cinema. A concentration in Animation covers hand-drawn and computer-generated animation, stop-motion, storyboarding, character design, and visual development. The Digital Filmmaking and Photography concentration features lighting, camera operation and movement, audio recording (including dual-system dialogue, effects, and music), and post-production (editing, color grading, and audio mixing). Practical projects drive a robust, four-year curriculum, with ten percent of the 120-credit degree comprised of general education courses.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students will demonstrate a high level of proficiency with the primary material, tools, technique, and technology used in their concentration area supplemented by experience with other media.
Students will fully investigate in their work conceptual issues and expressive potential of their medium.
Students will integrate aesthetic principles in the development of their own artwork.
Students will recognize that the making and study of art can be approached from a variety of perspectives.
Students will defend meaningful interpretations and critical evaluations about their own artworks and the works of other artists both orally and in writing.
Students will construct informed discussion of art as an essential component of viewing, producing, and evaluating art.
Students will explain cultural and historical contexts surrounding works of art in general and in their field of study.
Students will conclude that art communicates, challenges and shapes cultural and societal values.
Students will reframe their practices through experimentation.
Students will organize and produce a resume, a written statement about, and an appropriate visual documentation of their work.

Curriculum Requirements

Media Arts, Animation Concentration

Media Arts, Digital Film & Photography Concentration