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DIGITAL MEDIA (3.5 credits)

Digital media are reshaping contemporary art, design and critical thinking. Digital technologies are key factors in creative practices and industrial innovations. This interdisciplinary minor offers students in-depth instruction in leading contemporary critical theories and art and design practices in digital media. Students will develop critical and production skills to produce creative interventions in digitally mediated spaces, digital artworks, and prototypes for processes, interactions, objects, devices and environments.

The Interdisciplinary Minor in Digital Media is structured around a set of key digital concepts: Networks (Internet and distributed experiences); Installation and Social Space (concepts of tangible and virtual social space, materials, fabrication); Mobility (mobile media and interactions); and Code (programming, electronics).

CODE TITLE
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Required Course:
 
DIGF 3B01  Networked Communities & Environments 0.5
Choose one course from below (0.5 credit):  
VISM 2B41 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies 0.5
VISM 2B09 History of New Media Art 0.5
VISM 2B20 Web Theory 0.5
ENGL 4B05
Digital Texts (not offered fall/winter 2012-13) 0.5
Upon completion of the above, choose five elective courses from at least three of the four defined media areas: A. Networks, B. Installation and Social Space, C. Mobility, and D. Code. If you took 0.25 credit electives in the past, you must take more than five courses for a minimum total of 2.5 elective credits.

You must complete at least one Faculty of Art studio (INTM) and at least one Faculty of Design studio (ADVR, ENVR, GDES, GRPH, ILLU). At least 1.5 credits must be completed at the 300 or 400 level. 
A. Networks  
GDES 3B07 Interactive Communication: Smart Screens
0.5
ILLU 3B13
Media Studio 2 0.5
ILLU 3B14 
Media Studio 3 0.5
B. Installation and Social Space
 
ENVR 2B15
Research Studio/Colour & Form 0.5
GDES 3B08 Wayfinding/Information Systems 1 0.5
GDES 3B13
Compelling User Experience 1 0.5
GDES 3B38
Ambient Experience Design 0.5
GDES 3B46 Explorations in Architectural Glass 0.5
INTM 2B33
Computer Modelling & Animation 0.5
INTM 4B10
Media Installations 0.5
C. Mobility
 
GDES 3B20 Small Object Design: Virtual To Reality 1
0.5
GDES 3B27 Interactive Communication: Clever Devices 0.5
GDES 3B53
Interactive Communication: Beyond The Screen 0.5
GDES 3B70
Game Design: Conceptual And Visual Approaches
0.5
GDES 3B71 Game Design: Digital Development 0.5
D. Code
 
INTM 2B24
Introduction to Electronics: Kinetic Objects
0.5
INTM 3B40 Advanced Electronics (not offered fall/winter 2012-13) 0.5
INTM 3B45
Bending Reclaimed Technology
0.5
Total Credits
3.5

Courses no longer offered that were part of the minor:
GDES 3B41 Play Behaviour and Game Design 1: An Introduction to Game Theory and Interactivity (taken between 2006/07 and 2009/10)
ADVR 4A02
Interactive Space/Alternative Media (taken between 207/08 and 2011/12)
GRPH 2A06
Interaction Design Studio (taken between 207/08 and 2011/12)

Last Modified:6/20/2012 4:08:00 PM