A survey of current media arts with many guest speakers. Media explored includes film, photography, animation, contemporary art and criticism. Issues focused on include historical and contemporary representations of underrepresented groups in media.

A survey of current media arts with many guest speakers. Media explored includes film, photography, animation, contemporary art and criticism. Issues focused on include historical and contemporary representations of underrepresented groups in media.

Introduces students to thinking critically and practically about time-based creative practices. Explores the use of digital media in concepts surrounding time/space, image/sound, interactivity/networks, and performance/movement. Students will work with photo, film, video, and computer.

The theory of interdisciplinary practices will be the focus of contemporary art making and intersection of time-based media in animation, interactive technologies, installation, and performance art.

Introductory filmmaking course for non-majors. Covers all the basic elements of filmmaking. From script writing to final product. In this class you will be encouraged to think both critically and practically about your creative practices. This is a studio course. Students will be making artworks.

Introduces students to all the basic elements of audio recording and production. Production topics will include listening, choosing microphones, identifying ideal environments, recording techniques, as well as editing and mixing. This is a studio course. Students will be making artworks.

Using After Effects this course covers simple text and motion graphics designs, compositing and masking as well as working with live action footage. This is a studio course. Students will be making artworks. Students will view and analyze a variety of films to understand and evaluate them.

This course introduces the basic skills required in digital photography: shooting camera RAW files; adjusting images in photoshop and making inkjet prints. In addition, we will work with flash and strategies to deal with a variety of lighting situations.

Builds on the basic tools and concepts introduced in FMA 153. Students explore thematic and topical problems in the media arts, while deepening their critical and technical skills.

This course brings University students into local public schools to offer instruction in media such as photography and video, along with writing exercises to develop projects that explore issues of identity, community and family.

Introduction to critical approaches that illuminate how modes of visual culture function as rhetoric, commerce, art, and ideological expression. Examines how institutional frameworks shape global image circulation.

This course will presume a technical ability which allows for more specialized topics of discussion/study. Students will be required to create projects in collaboration, exploring ideas in depth and understanding historical and critical precedents.

Culmination of Film and Media Arts experience for graduating seniors. Focus is on refining students thesis projects and preparing for professional careers in their fields.

Completion of an Honors Thesis Project under the supervision of a faculty member.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

An interdisciplinary course examining the lifeworld of animals and posthumanism in light of current environmental issues. Involves readings and film viewings from sciences, arts and humanities. Students make original projects in response to readings.

An interdisciplinary course examining art and media that critiques or productively re-imagines the production, distribution, and consumption of food. Students will draw on readings and independent research to make their own projects.

Students will learn and experiment with a wide variety of collage techniques and production tools. This is also an Art + Ecology course, and will be taught in the context of ecology, or the study of relations. We will think with and through key ideas in contemporary ecological thought using collage as a mode of articulation.