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Digital Futures: Technology/Innovation/Design/Art (DF:TIDA)

DF:TIDA degree students integrate digital technology and business innovation with design and art studio practice. Depending on their choice of elective courses and the focus of their thesis project, students will earn either a Bachelor of Design or Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Course Code Course Title Credit
100 Level Requirements (some course codes are pending)
DIGF 1B01 Sketching Ideas 0.5
DIGF 1B03 Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration 0.5
GART 1B06 Time-based Media 0.5
GART 1B70 Art and Code 0.5
GDES 1B21 Experience Design 0.5
Games Design 1 0.5
100 Level Studio Elective* 0.5
LBST 1B04 Global Visual and Material Culture: Prehistory to 1800 0.5
LBST 1B05 Global Visual and Material Culture: 1800 to the Present 0.5
Plus choose one of:
LBST 1B11 The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics 0.5
LBST 1B12 The Essay and the Argument: ESL
LBST 1B13 The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric
Total: 5.0
200 Level Requirements (some course codes are pending)
Introduction to Data Visualization 0.5
DIGF 2B03 Physical Computing 0.5
INTM 2B34 Hybrid Media Lab 0.5
SCTM 2B06 Introduction to Computer Science: Logic & Coding 0.5
SCTM 2B07 Introduction to Inclusive Design 0.5
VISM 2B09 History of New Media Art 0.5
VISM 2B15 Introduction to Game Studies 0.5
200 Level Studio Electives* 1.0
200 Level Open Electives**
0.5
Total: 5.0
300 Level Requirements (some course codes are pending)

IP: The Value of Intangibles 0.5
DIGF 3B01 Synthesis (Thesis Proposal)
0.5
Internship/Field Study
0.5
Interaction Design
0.5
SCTM 3B03 Human Factors
0.5
SCTM 3B02 Thinking Statistics: Data, Meaning & Analysis
0.5
VISM 3B01 Critical Play
0.5
300 Level Studio Electives*
1.0
Open Electives**
0.5
Total: 5.0
400 Level Requirements (some course codes are pending)
BUSI 4B02 Understanding Trends 0.5
DIGF 4B01 Leadership in the Digital Economy
0.5

Thesis Project I
1.0

Thesis Project II
1.0
400 Level Studio Electives* 1.0
Open Electives** 1.0
Total:
5.0

Students are urged to plan their electives well in advance. Many upper-level courses have prerequisites.

*A studio elective may be any studio or studio/seminar from Art or Design for which the student has completed any necessary prerequisites.

** An open elective may be selected from any faculty. Please note prerequisites.

Last Modified:11/21/2012 1:49:11 PM