Interdisciplinary Minors

Multimedia

Faculty

Chung, Forche, Higgins, Lont, Martin, Montecino, Smith, Weinberger, White

In the multimedia minor, students learn how to create original work and communicate with others through the fusion of images, text, sound, and video. Students analyze and incorporate into their productions contemporary design principles and current software applications. As part of this process, students are encouraged to focus on how multimedia technologies, which offer new tools for investigating and disseminating ideas, can enhance undergraduate research and writing. These skills, now important in most academic disciplines, are also increasingly valuable not only in the specialized information technology industries, but also in business, education, and politics.

This minor is not available to students majoring in AVT with a concentration in digital arts.

Requirements

Students in this minor complete 18 to 20 credits distributed as follows:

1. 9­10 credits of core courses

• AVT 104 Studio Fundamentals I (4 credits)
• COMM 157 Video Workshop or ENGL 209 Enhanced Digital Text (1 credit)
• And one of the following
  • AVT 180 or CAS 101 Computers in the Creative Arts (3 credits)
  • NCLC 249 Internet Literacy (4 credits)

2. 8­9 credits of electives with no more than 6 elective credits in any one college or department

• AVT 280 Digital Arts I (4 credits)
• AVT 381 Digital Arts II (4 credits)
• COMM 355 Video I: Principles and Practices (3 credits)
• NCLC 345 Introduction to Multimedia (5 credits)
• NCLC 445 Multimedia Design (5 credits)
• ENGL 497 Special Topics in Creative Writing: Hypertext Poetry and Web Publishing (3 credits)