Provides a practical and conceptual foundation in digital visual art.

Utilizes Adobe Creative Suite to explore shape, line, value, texture, and color.

Explores various media, including digital displays, print media, and hybrid forms.

Explored the historical roots and current developments of podcasting and examined podcasting’s evolution from a DIY medium to mainstream success.

Covers podcast production basics: program planning, microphone techniques, interviewing, writing for the ear, and audio editing.

Analyzed the historical development of radio, film, and television genres, technologies, and formats.

Explored the cultural, economic, political, and social climates in which these media evolved.

Examined the impact of media on society and how historical events shaped their development.

Understanding of video/television concepts and operation.

Hands-on experience beginning with the development of a professional project, treatment, script, and storyboard.  Focuses on production tools and skills, class workshops, and outside exercises that facilitate becoming comfortable with camera and editing equipment and with overall production process.  

Conceiving, coordinating, shooting, and editing the project, production teams will encounter real-time pressure and problem-solving situations.

Explored the American tradition of social documentaries, focusing on milestone projects.

Oral, visual, and textual modes of production were examined.  

Special focus on new digital forms of representation and their impact on production, distribution, and consumption. 

Introduced to the fundamental skills of investigative research, interviewing, gathering and interpreting information, and using print and electronic archives and research, and produced own multi-media documentary projects.