Common Core Classes

Freshman Year

Fall Semester

IFDM 105 Inter and New Media Studies I (3)

The history of the methods and practices of Art, Science, & Technology in the development of New Media. A survey of the phenomena called New Media from a historical perspective (Who has been doing what? why? where? What are the implications and socio-cultural context?).A look at the practices, careers, and disciplines involved with Film and Digital Media.


Spring Semester

CS152L Programming Fundamentals (3)

Working under the hood. Developing knowledge and practice of networking, scripting, & common operating systems. Involves collaborative projects.

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Sophomore Year

Fall Semester

IFDM 205 Studio I: Activating Digital Space (3)

Introduction to Digital Space. Studio class exploring the critical, technical and creative elements of choosing what to put in the digital space, what to do with it when it is there, and how to send it out of the digital space, printed to paper, as light, as moving images, sound, etc.

Spring Semester

IFDM 210 Intro to Modeling and Postproduction (3)

This course is an introduction to computer graphics and animation. It mixes theory and application using an industry standard animation package, presently Maya, both to teach use of the tool and to demonstrate key concepts. Involves collaborative projects.

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Junior Year

Fall Semester

IFDM 300 Critical Intermediations (3)

This class will survey contemporary theories of the impact of digital media on the individual, the community and the state. Do digital media fundamentally alter the nature of the human self, as many claim? How do they alter the landscape? Our notions of what it means to be �at home�? The ways we do business? The ways we govern ourselves? To answer these questions, we�ll explore the dynamics of digital media and at the same time, the ways in which those dynamics shape—and have been shaped by—ongoing processes of social change.


Spring Semester

IFDM 310 STUDIO II: Writing Digital Narrative (3)

The structure of this course is divided into five parts: 1) The technical aesthetics of narrative media; 2) The structure of narrative; 3) The art of writing narrative; 4) The realization of narrative; 5) The fieldwork/writing project. The goal of this course is to offer students an overview of issues on writing for these digital media; its objective is to create successful, media-savvy writers, who work across digital platforms.

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Senior Year

Fall Semester

IFDM 400 Ethics, Science & Technology. (3)

Ethical issues arising from the impact of science and technology on the personal, social and political dimensions of culture or what happens and who takes responsibility when the genie is out of the bottle?


IFDM 450 Capstone I. (4)

Students required to form interdisciplinary collaborative teams. Teams develop and plan project idea.


Spring Semester

IFDM 410 The Business and Law of Film and New Media (3)

This course is designed to introduce students to the business and legal aspects of creating a new digital media venture. This is a project based course where an interdisciplinary team of students will be required to develop a business plan for a new digital media product. The students will be exposed to the life cycle of a new venture, including the following stages: concept formation; marketing; developing a budget; finding financing; forming a company; hiring and managing employees; and sales.

IFDM 451 Capstone II (4)

Collaborative teams execute projects and give open demonstration of the results.