Subject: Digital Media Arts (DIMA)

CRN: 21036

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 201

Requirements Met:
     Film Studies Production/Pract

  Nick Clausen

This class provides a foundation for producing digital photographs, videos and sound recordings that will enable the student to create a wide range of media texts, including journalistic multimedia stories, documentary films, dramatic or comedic productions, and audio productions. The class covers the basics of digital information, basic equipment operation, basic composition for still and moving images, high quality sound recording and basic digital editing, including digital storage and workflow. Students learn how to create digital media with an eye on technique and aesthetic quality.

4 Credits

Subject: Digital Media Arts (DIMA)

CRN: 21038

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 201

Requirements Met:
     Film Studies Production/Pract
     Writing Intensive

  Peter Gregg

This class provides a foundation for producing digital photographs, videos and sound recordings that will enable the student to create a wide range of media texts, including journalistic multimedia stories, documentary films, dramatic or comedic productions, and audio productions. The class covers the basics of digital information, basic equipment operation, basic composition for still and moving images, high quality sound recording and basic digital editing, including digital storage and workflow. Students learn how to create digital media with an eye on technique and aesthetic quality.

4 Credits

Subject: Digital Media Arts (DIMA)

CRN: 21037

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 201

Requirements Met:
     Film Studies Production/Pract
     Writing to learn

  Greg Vandegrift

This class provides a foundation for producing digital photographs, videos and sound recordings that will enable the student to create a wide range of media texts, including journalistic multimedia stories, documentary films, dramatic or comedic productions, and audio productions. The class covers the basics of digital information, basic equipment operation, basic composition for still and moving images, high quality sound recording and basic digital editing, including digital storage and workflow. Students learn how to create digital media with an eye on technique and aesthetic quality.

4 Credits

Subject: Digital Media Arts (DIMA)

CRN: 21039

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 201

  Sky Anderson

This course will introduce students to fundamental theories of game design and the practice of creating video games. Students will learn digital tools for video game creation, such as familiarity with an introductory-level game creation engine. Students will engage in ethical questions in design and how video games can contribute to the common good. Course content will explore the expressive possibilities of games as cultural productions.

4 Credits

Subject: Digital Media Arts (DIMA)

CRN: 21040

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 219

  Chuck Hermes

This course has been developed to provide students with an elementary understanding of graphic design elements and principles. Applied projects in illustration, typography, and publication design will be completed via software applications.

4 Credits

Subject: Digital Media Arts (DIMA)

CRN: 21042

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing in the Discipline

  Pamela Nettleton

Media, Culture and Society examines the role media play in social and cultural formations. This course looks beyond the media as transmitters of information to their broadest social and cultural effects. Students study media as agents of enlightened social modernism, as political and economic institutions, as purveyors of popular culture, and as aspects of cultural and sub-cultural rituals. History, political economy, critical studies, cultural anthropology, semiotics and sociology are among the areas from which approaches for studying the media are considered in the course. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor

4 Credits

Subject: Digital Media Arts (DIMA)

CRN: 21043

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 219

Requirements Met:
     Sustainability (SUST)

  Tim Armato

This course teaches students HTML and Web-page production. The goal is to help students develop strategies for writing, editing, designing and publishing a Website that meets professional standards.

4 Credits

Subject: Digital Media Arts (DIMA)

CRN: 21044

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 219

Instructor: TBD

Graphic Design Studio is an advanced graphic design course. Students study the history of graphic design and typography, the elements of fine typography, techniques in interactive media / web design, and create projects suitable for their portfolio. Prerequisite: DIMA 256 or DIMA 258

4 Credits

Subject: Digital Media Arts (DIMA)

CRN: 21045

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 201

Requirements Met:
     Film Studies Production/Pract

  Peter Gregg

This course will examine advanced aesthetic and technical components associated with producing and directing video projects individually and as a part of production teams. Students will examine current theory and practice of emerging media production and will engage in the conceptualization, execution and analysis of advanced video production. Prerequisite: DIMA 360 or permission of instructor. Prerequisite: DIMA 360

4 Credits

Subject: Digital Media Arts (DIMA)

CRN: 21046

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 201

Requirements Met:
     [Core] Signature Work
     Writing in the Discipline

  Yayu Feng

This class represents the culmination of learning in the program and provides a capstone involving the planning and creation of a large-scale digital media project within the student's area of emphasis and a professional demo reel or portfolio, including components dealing with the ethical responsibilities of media producers and how the student’s work reflects those responsibilities. It is required of all majors. Prerequisite: Senior Standing

4 Credits