Program of Study
The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program offers a major and a formal minor program of study leading to the Bachelor of Arts Degree (B.A.) in Digital Technology and Culture (DTC). Additionally, students pursuing a B.A. in the Humanities or a B.A. in Social Sciences can select the DTC as a primary or secondary area of concentration. In all cases, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program teaches students to conceptualize interactive, multimedia applications of computer technology and think critically about digital media and the ways humans interact and engage with them.
Program Goals
The B.A. in Digital Technology and Culture (DTC) offers 27 credit hours of core courses as well as 12 credit hours in one of two tracks: Media Authoring and Knowledge Management and Production. While many courses are specifically designed as DTC courses, some also come from such disciplines as Anthropology, Business, Computer Science, English, Fine Arts, History, MIS, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology so that students receive a well-rounded education in culture as well as in digital technology.
At the completion of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Digital Technology and Culture, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate competency with computers for designing and distributing digital works in various mediums for effective human-computer interactions
- Synthesize media forms for multimedia contexts
- Employ the principles of visual form for sophisticated image manipulation
- Understand the production and assessment of media objects
- Identify and explain key principles of information architecture, effectively manage knowledge for both information retrieval and archival purposes, and evaluate and choose appropriate information architecture and knowledge management strategies for a given situation
- Question the way digital media functions in multiple cultural contexts
- Recognize various forms of language processing and their implications for media authoring
- Appreciate the history of technological development, from local to global perspectives, and its implications for a variety of mediums
- Utilize an interdisciplinary perspective in order to understand the basics of social, economic, and education changes brought about by digital media
- Be practiced and capable communicators in all mediums
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