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Digital Media (B.A.) Interactive Design Concentration

Program Overview

Students completing this program will be able to work effectively in a broad range of fields associated with Digital Media, bringing a Christian perspective to bear on the digital world they will be helping to create. Digital Media is a broadly defined field and the program is designed to familiarize students with that breadth. All students will take a core of courses, which introduce digital interactive design, digital video, introductory computer programming, and digital sound design. The concentrations give the program depth in one specific area, and the free electives give students the option of exploring digital media in still greater depth, or combining their studies with another discipline. Each concentration is housed in its own department: Art and Design, Communication, Computer and Information Science, or Theatre. At the same time, all aspects of the program will focus on interactivity whether in video, animation, gaming, web design or other software applications.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates from Messiah’s Digital Media program can:

  1. Explain foundational concepts of visual design, narrative, and computing.
  2. Apply analytical and research skills needed to place digital media works in their social, historical, and cultural settings, and to understand and evaluate their effectiveness
  3. Design and create successful projects in visual and sound design, and programming.
  4. Effectively communicate through digital media using technical and narrative skills.
  5. Design and produce a successful collaborative digital media project.
  6. Articulate their own strengths and weakness related to the field of digital media; identify their suitedness for specific digital media careers.
  7. Articulate how their faith connects to the study of digital media, and how faith connects to potential career options in the field of digital media

Major Requirements

Complete the following for your major:

DIGM 105Foundations in Creative Digital Media

3
DIGM 210Video and Church Media Seminar

1
DIGM 215Game and Art Design Seminar

1
CIS 180Introduction to Computer and Information Science

3
CIS 181Computer Programming I

3
CIS 191Web Development:Client Side

3
COMM 203Basic Video&Editing Techniques

3
COMM 217Introduction to Film

3
COMM 382History and Theory of Digital Media

3
DIGM 490Senior Seminar and Project

4
MUCM 353Sound Design

3
Six credits of Digital Media Electives (see list)

6

COMM 382: Fulfills Writing Enriched course requirement for major.

Digital Media Electives: Courses taken to fulfill a major requirement cannot also count towards the six credits of Digital Media electives requirement.

Three credits from the following:

ART 171Foundations of Drawing

3
ART 182Color and Design

3
ART 251Photography

3
ART 282Form, Space, and Media

3

Three credits from the following:

ART 236Graphic Design and Visual Culture: Seeing, Thinking, Making

3
ART 237Typography and Visual Communications

3

Three credits from the following:

ART 336Interactive Design

3
ART 338Digital Illustration

3
ART 431Motion Design

3

Three credits from the following:

ARTH 210Topics in Non-Western Art

3
COMM 321Global Indigenous Media

3
COMM 327/IDNW 200Latin American Cinema

3

Art and Design Concentration (15 credits)

ART 312Digital Imaging

3
ART 337Graphic Design and Professional Practice

3

Choose three credits from the following:

ART 347Service Centered Design

3
ART 420Designer as Author:Book Design, Zines

3

Choose six credits from the following:

ART 336Interactive Design

3
ART 338Digital Illustration

3
ART 352Digital Photography

3
ART 431Motion Design

3

Digital Media electives

List of approved Digital Media Electives

ART 171Foundations of Drawing

3
ART 182Color and Design

3
ART 236Graphic Design and Visual Culture: Seeing, Thinking, Making

3
ART 237Typography and Visual Communications

3
ART 251Photography

3
ART 312Digital Imaging

3
ART 336Interactive Design

3
ART 337Graphic Design and Professional Practice

3
ART 338Digital Illustration

3
ART 347Service Centered Design

3
ART 352Digital Photography

3
ART 420Designer as Author:Book Design, Zines

3
ART 431Motion Design

3
ARTH 150Art History I: Ancient through Medieval Art

3
ARTH 151Art History II: Renaissance through Contemporary Art

3
ARTH 209History of Modern Art

3
ARTH 309Contemporary Art: 1945 - Present

3
CIS 284Computer Programming II

3
CIS 287Introduction to Game Design

3
CIS 291Web Development: Server Side

3
CIS 315Introduction to Mobile Application Design

3
CIS 332Database Concepts

3
CIS 381Information Systems and Managers

3
CIS 385Data Structures and Algorithms

3
CIS 432Database Applications

3
COMM 205Principles of Public Relations

3
COMM 218Mass Media and Society

3
COMM 220Film and HD Production I

3
COMM 251Film History I 1895-1960

3
COMM 252Film History II 1960-Present

3
COMM 254Screenwriting I

3
COMM 255Screenwriting II

3
COMM 310Fundraising

3
COMM 317Advanced Editing & Effects

3
COMM 328Methods and Issues in Film Studies

3
COMM 341Communication Theory

3
COMM 342Intercultural Communication

3
COMM 353Crisis Communication and Media Relations

3
COMM 357Event Planning

3
COMM 363Documentary and Promotional Film

3
COMM 380Advanced Topics in Film Production

3
INTE 391Internship

1-3
INTE 394Internship

4-12
THEA 115Production Practicum

1
THEA 150Introduction to Technical Theatre and Design

3
THEA 250Stage Management

3
THEA 350Scenographic Techniques

3

COMM 220, COMM 251, COMM 252, COMM 317, COMM 328, COMM 380: This course requires prerequisite(s), which may increase the total credits required for the major.

INTE 391 and INTE 394 must be taken for a letter grade to fulfill major.

QuEST Requirements

Experiential Learning requirement 0
QuEST requirements Credits
First Year Seminar 3
Oral Communication 3
Created and Called for Community (W) 3
Mathematical Sciences (CIS 180, CIS 181, or CIS 191) met/major
Laboratory Science 3 or 4
Science, Technology & the World waived
Two of the following (6 credits total):
   Social Science
   European History
   United States History 		6
Literature 3
Philosophy and Religion 3
Arts (ART 171, ART 182, ART 211, ART 251, or ART 282) met/major
First Semester of Language 3
Second Semester of Language 3
Third Semester of Language or Cross Cultural 3
Non-Western Studies (ARTH 210, COMM 321 or COMM 327) met/major
Bible 3
Christian Beliefs 3
Wellness course 1
Ethics, World Views or Pluralism 3
QuEST requirements 43-44
Major requirements (inclusive of concentration) 63
Free electives 17-16
Total credits 123