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DIMA/CS 100 Introduction to Digital Interactive Media 3 SH This course is an introduction and overview of the integration of digital & interactive media – text, graphics, animation, moving images, and sound – into products that allow people to interact with both data and one another. Areas of discussion will include: history of digital & interactive media, theories of human-computer interaction, user control, and design. Students will produce multiple collaborative creative projects in areas such as: 2D animation, creative coding, Generative AI, basic game design, hypertext art, sound design, and augmented reality. The course will culminate with a concept driven final project.
DIMA 101 Animation for Interactive Storytelling 3 SH This course introduces animation as a dynamic tool for storytelling within digital and Public Humanities contexts. Students explore character design, movement, and mixed media approaches to animation using accessible, expressive production methods. Emphasis is placed on concept development, visual storytelling, performance driven animation, and the integration of emerging Generative AI animation workflows. Students learn to apply animation in ways that support interpretive, community engaged, and culturally responsive media practices. Prerequisite: DIMA 100 recommended.
DIMA 200 Storytelling for Digital and Interactive Media 3 SH This course examines and applies foundations of storytelling through current technology, such as social media, interactive storytelling, 360-video, and virtual reality. Students will explore narrative process using theoretical and practice-based methods. In addition, students will conceive and implement narrative projects and assess the viability of new technology as a means for contemporary storytelling. Emphasis will also be placed on concept development, pre-production, group-based collaboration, post-production, and exhibition. Prerequisite: DIMA/CS 100 and COM 146.
DIMA 300 Digital and Interactive Technologies 3 SH In this course, students will explore digital and interactive technologies through a process of practice and theory. Initially, the course will introduce technical procedures for creating presence within virtual spaces. Technologies to be covered may include photogrammetry, 3D modeling, game engine content creation or augmented/virtual reality. In addition to this practical exploration, students will conduct research and complete a comprehensive written project that is relevant to the field of digital and interactive media arts. The written project will satisfy the requirements of the W3 competency. Research topics may include posthumanism, digital persona, objectivity or art environments. Prerequisite: WRT 101, Writing Intensive Tier II (W2), DIMA 200 and junior standing.
DIMA/COM 436 Senior Project and Presentation 3 SH In this course, students will create an original capstone project that is the culmination, integration, and synthesis of their respective DIMA or Media Production learning experience. With the help of a faculty advisor, students will develop a production, project or portfolio that demonstrates their proficiency in an area of digital & interactive media arts or media production. The capstone requires students to engage in a comprehensive, three-stage approach towards project development. This process includes research, preparation, production, creative process, project completion, and distribution. A key method of capstone evaluation will include a juried review of senior productions. The capstone jury will be comprised of DIMA and/or media production faculty and may include professionals from other subject appropriate disciplines or media-based industries. All final productions, projects and portfolios must include research documentation. Prerequisite: Media Production Seniors in good standing in the major and DIMA 300 or COM 235.
