Degree: Associate in Business

Major: DIGITAL ARTS (DAT3)

Credit Requirements: 66 semester credit hours

 

The Associate Degree program in Digital Arts prepares students for employment in a variety of fields traditionally categorized under the generic term “commercial art.” Specific careers the program provides training for include computerized graphic artists/designers for the printing, publishing, and advertising industries; electronic designers for both the internet (web) and for Compact Disk (CD) and Digital Video Disk (DVD) publishing, and video production technicians for both internet (web) streaming, for commercial or industrial business, and for broadcast television.

 

All students in the program will acquire basic education in art/design, art history, and film and video production. During the first year, they will acquire basic digital arts skills, and the second year they will acquire both advance skills and a programmatic specialization(s) in one or more areas, such as video animation, graphic arts, advertising design or TV production.

 

Students completing the program will be prepared for employment as practitioners in advertising agencies, in full-service printing businesses, in web design and web hosting firms, in video production facilities, and in television stations.

 

FIRST SEMESTER 

 

 

ARV 110

COMPUTER GRAPHICS I

3.0

_______

ARV 121

DESIGN

3.0

_______

ARV 212

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

3.0

_______

ENG 155

COMMUNICATIONS I

3.0

_______

ART 101

ART HISTORY AND APPRECIATION

3.0

_______

 

15.0

 

SECOND SEMESTER 

 

 

ARV 210

COMPUTER GRAPHICS II

3.0

_______

ARV 226

DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTION

3.0

_______

ART 105

FILM AS ART

3.0

_______

ENG 160

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS

3.0

_______

MAT 155

CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS

3.0

_______

OR

      

MAT 110

COLLEGE ALGEBRA

3.0

_______

 

 

15.0

 

 

 

 

THIRD SEMESTER 

 

 

ARV 282

SCWE IN DIGITAL ARTS

6.0

_______

IST 225

INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS

3.0

_______

OR

 

 

 

ARV 227

WEB SITE DESIGN I

 

_______

 

9.0

 

FOURTH SEMESTER 

 

 

CPT 163

INTRO TO MULTIMEDIA  FOR WEB PAGES

3.0

_______

OR

 

 

 

ARV 228

WEB SITE DESIGN II

3.0

_______

ARV 162

GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION I

3.0

_______

ARV 261

ADVERTISING DESIGN I

3.0

_______

MKT 101

MARKETING

3.0

_______

PSY 201

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

3.0

_______

OR

      

SOC 201

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

3.0

_______

 

15.0

 

FIFTH SEMESTER

 

 

ARV 219

MULTIMEDIA TECHNIQUES

3.0

_______

ARV 264

SPECIAL PROJECTS IN GRAPHIC ARTS

3.0

_______

OR

 

 

 

ARV 268

SPECIAL PROJECT VIDEOGRAPHY

3.0

_______

ARV 262

ADVERTISING DESIGN II

3.0

_______

ARV 222

COMPUTER ANIMATION

3.0

_______

 

12.0

 

 

 

 

TOTAL HOURS 66.0

 

 


The following departmental electives provide for a focus within the overall curriculum:

   ANIMATION SEQUENCE:
   ARV 225   ADVANCED COMPUTER ANIMATION- 3

*Students transferring to a four-year degree program should consider ENG 101, ENG 102 and SPC 205 in place of ENG 155 and ENG 160; however, they must achieve required College placement score(s) to be eligible to enroll in any of these courses. Also, MAT 110 is recommended in place of MAT 155.
 

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