DMST 2000: Introduction to EMAD
This course lays the groundwork for visual semiotics and design literacy, to understand how meaning is formed. It consists of practical design applications reflecting cultural, social, political and psychological contexts. 5 credit hours. Cross-listed with ARTD 2315: Introduction to eMAD.
undergraduate only
DMST 2005: 2D Approaches
For the first component of the program, students are introduced to the elements of design and vocabulary of art across four different segments: 2D design, 3D design, digital design, and perception & markmaking. Students will explore the formal language of the media presented in each segment, and develop an understanding of materials and process in each. Verbal and written exercises will supplement group activities and visual learning. Students rotate through four segments.
undergraduate
DMST 2010: 3D Approaches
For the second component of the program, students continue interdisciplinary investigations of art across four different segments: 2D continued, sculptural form, digital languages, and explorations of color. Each segment will expand the knowledge and skill acquired in ARTS 1100, with greater emphasis placed on subjectivity, content and conceptual development. Students will continue explorations across material boundaries and begin visual analysis. Students rotate through the four segments.
undergraduate
DMST 2335/4335: Identity and Branding
This course focuses on the theories and practice involved in creating identities through the use of visual structures to understand how signs, symbols and design elements can represent character. 5 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
Prerequisites: ARTD 2315 and ARTD 2325.
DMST 2345/4345: Typography
This class is a rigorous investigation of the expressive potential of typography as a critical element of visual communications and electronic media. 5 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
Prerequisites: ARTD 2315 and ARTD 2325.
DMST 2355/4355: Net Art and Design
The grounding conceptual framework of this course on net art includes an understanding of the psychological, social and cultural contexts of net art history, net access and distribution, net culture, network-driven collaboration and community building, hypertext and rich media narrativity, visual semiotics, identity, content delivery architectures and venue development. Aesthetic and technical reinforcement of this conceptual base will explore network architectures; user/audience interface/navigation design, development and experimentation; meta data/multimedia content utilization; enhanced interactivity; online collaborations and venue development and redefinition. Technology used includes Dreamweaver MX and related digital imaging and embedded multimedia authoring software. 5 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
Prerequisites: ARTD 2315 and ARTD 2325.
DMST 2365/4365: Digital Video Art
This course continues the investigation of theories and practice of electronic media, especially in areas of animation and interactivity. 5 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
Prerequisites: ARTD 2315 and ARTD 2325.
DMST 3315: Designing Social Awareness
This class produces multimedia team projects for local non- profit organizations. It engages issues of social responsibility in design. 5 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
Prerequisites: ARTD 2315 and ARTD 2325.
DMST 3325: Site-Specific Design
This class produces projects investigating three-dimensional space, virtual space and site-specific public installations. 5 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
Prerequisites: ARTD 2315 and ARTD 2325.
DMST 3355: Interactive Art and Design
This course introduces and extends the concepts, aesthetics, and techniques critical to the exploration and authoring of interactive art and design works. It will explore human computer interactions; user/audience interface design and development; interactive logic, author-audience dialogue; meta data/multimedia asset acquisition and authoring environments; motion graphics/animation composition, development and integration; audio editing/incorporation/reinforcement and interactive scripting techniques. Emphasis will be on the spectrum of realized and developing interactive media deployment and distribution ranging from screen media to environments. Technology includes Flash MX and related digital imaging and audio acquisition software. 5 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
Prerequsites: ARTD 2355.
DMST 3375: Advanced Design
This course engages contemporary issues in culture, theory and design. Projects will utilize interactive multimedia. 5 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
DMST 4000: Digital Design Concepts
This is a graduate level/introductory design course on steroids! It bridges the gap between those who claim they're unable to render a straight line and those who proclaim art stardom. It is a rigorous investigation into transcending principles of design, issues of visual communication, popular culture, critical theory. The ever present goal is the ability to communicate clear ideas through the use of images- establishing not just aesthetic presentations but ones that are also based on intent and concept. Creativity and critical approaches are the main principles guiding all that this course presents. by the end of the course, the goal is for all of the students to be aware of how images communicate, how people read visuals and how to construct visuals in a critical and aesthetic way. 5 credit hours.
