New Media

New media majors typically apply for advanced standing in their fourth or fifth semester, while concurrently completing the courses required in the first two years of study. A student may be in the process of fulfilling a maximum of two foundation courses concurrent with advanced standing. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the new media program, it is important that students be strongly focused and self-directed. Therefore, the transition to advanced standing is taken very seriously by the New Media faculty.

In order to have a clear picture of each student’s preparedness, the department requests that each student submit materials for review. This advanced-standing website must be submitted two weeks before the beginning of registration for the following semester. Students register for NME 2100/New Media Advanced Standing, and are assigned a faculty member who will be their Advanced Standing Advisor to help them navigate the process. A series of workshops are also provided by staff to help with any technical issues.

To apply for advanced standing, each student must build a website consisting of:

• a portfolio of work, which shall be presented on the student’s webpage
• a written discussion of the student’s development to date (this two- to four-page document shall include a discussion of courses completed or in progress, projects undertaken, and recent life experiences that have led to the current proposal)
• a proposed academic program that the student intends to follow until graduation (this two- to four-page proposal shall include a list of all courses that the student plans to take in his or her remaining semesters, the general area of the intended senior project, and an indication of what projects and internships the student will develop to prepare for a successful senior year)

Please note: The New Media Faculty review the curriculum and determine whether the student receives advanced standing. Advanced standing is a prerequisite for many of the upper-level courses that constitute the major. It is possible to retake Advanced Standing a second time the following semester, but students must speak with their advisor and the New Media chair before reapplying. Students who are ultimately not approved for advanced standing will need to complete their BA in a different major.

ARH 3405/Design History and Theory: 1750–Today: 4 credits
ARH 3531/New Media and Contemporary Art: 4 credits
CIN 3200/Film, Media, and War Machines: 4 credits
DES 3240/Design Issues: 3 credits
DES 3300/History of Graphic Design Survey: 4 credits
MTH 4120/History of Recorded Music I: 2 credits
MTH 4130/History of Recorded Music II: 2 credits
VIS 3000/Art in the Age of Electronic Media: 3 credits

The following list includes courses offered by the media studies program and by the School of Art+Design.

ANT 2320/Performing Arts in Cross-Cultural Perspective: 3 credits
ANT 3185/Global Media, Local Cultures: 4 credits
ANT 3345/Media and Performance in Africa: 4 credits
ANT 3410/Anthropology of Art and Aesthetics: 4 credits
MSA 3160/Queer Media Convergence: 4 credits
MSA 3400/Critical Perspectives on Media, Society, and the Arts: 4 credits
MSA 4750/Special Topics in Media, Society, and the Arts: 4 credits
VIS 3500/The Arts for Social Change: 3 credits

Courses in the following lists are subject to change, and new courses may be added. Students should consult with their faculty advisor when choosing electives. Please check the course search for course prerequisites as courses are offered.

New Media
NME 2470/Drawing, Moving, and Seeing with Code
NME 3010/Cross-Cultural Video Production
NME 3040/Internet as Public Art
NME 3050/Information Aesthetics
NME 3150/Material Distribution: Billboards, Wheatpaste, and Pamphlets
NME 3170/Digital Design and Fabrication
NME 3210/Artistic Activism
NME 3215/Experimental Game Lab
NME 3220/Forms of the Moving Image
NME 3230/Real-Time Media Processing
NME 3265/Social Design
NME 3340/Photography Expanded
NME 3350/Digital Printmaking
NME 3430/Video Graphics
NME 3455/Dark Ecology Studio
NME 3545/Community-Centered Media
NME 3560/Introduction to Physical Computing: Getting Outside the Box  
NME 3675/Copy, Paste
NME 3720/Interactive Installation: Hacking the Everyday
NME 3770/Experimental Web Practice
NME 4150/Special Projects in Tiny Computing

Film:
FLM 3610/Experimental Workshop (Part One)
FLM 3620/Experimental Workshop (Part Two)

Mathematics/Computer Science (School of Natural & Social Sciences):
MAT 1420/Programming Games
MAT 3146/Scripting for the Web
MAT 3440/Creating User Interfaces  
MAT 3530/Creating Databases for Web Applications
MAT 3540/Social Software
MAT 3650/Networking and Security
MAT 3670/Robotics
MAT 3755/Mobile Computing
MAT 3765/Mobile Media

School of the Arts:

Studio Composition (Conservatory of Music):
MCO 1310/Studio Composition I
MCO 1320/Studio Composition II
MCO 2310/MIDI Composition I
MCO 2320/MIDI Composition II
MCO 3330/Studio Production I
MCO 3340/Studio Production II
MCO 4350/Digital Audio I
MCO 4360/Digital Audio II

Theatre and Performance (Conservatory of Theatre Arts):
THP 3120/Gameplay and Performance
THP3645/Projection Design for Performance

School of Art+Design:
DES 3090/Interactive Design
DES 3190/Motion Graphics for Designers
DES 4170/Advanced Web Design: Special Projects
PRT 3000/The Animated Print
SCP 3155/Performance Art
SCP 3310/Digital Dimensions
SCP 3420/Video Art II
SCP 3630/Sound/Interactive Media I
SCP 3640/Sound/Interactive Media II