Category: Course Listing

DGD-224 MOTION NARRATIVES

This second motion design course is an elective,,and expands on the concepts and methods presented,in designing dynamic digital communications that,rely on the use of typography, image, video,,message, and sound that were introduced in Motion,I. Students will expand on their understanding of,how messages are created in a dynamic context,using typography, image, sound, and semiotics. ,Project will integrate 2D/3D concepts that expands,on the important role of video creation and,production, including digital tools, and,techniques, relevant for communication design,majors. Projects consider appropriate narrative,messaging structures with audience(s)/User(s),needs and intents as a primary focus.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DGD 211, DGD 251, DGD 263

DGD-378 EXPERIENCE DESIGN

This elective course expands students’ ability,to create human centered user interfaces and,experiences. Projects consider the role of,systemic nature of interactive experiences from,analog to digital, real to virtual. Project,outcomes are a connected set of experiences that,can shift from screen to spatial environments,through the use of code, gesture, type, narrative,messaging, color, image, sound, and motion. ,Research and development into information mapping,,wireframing, high-low physical prototyping,,performative usability testing, logic, narrative,messaging, and material construction are key,themes in the process of creating systemic UxD,solutions with expanded definition of user needs,and inclusive scenarios are core to project,outcomes.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DGD 365, DGD 311 OR DGD 312

DHS-338 SHOPPERS, ADVERTISERS AND RETAILERS:,CONSUMPTION AND AMERICAN CULTURE

This course offers students an introductory survey,to the cultural, intellectual, social, and,institutional histories of consumption in the,United States. In particular students focus on,four issues: the development of the mass market at,the end of the nineteenth century, the cultural,and institutional histories of advertising and,marketing, consumption and the construction of,gender, race and sexuality and the long-running,debate over the social effects of consumption.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Take one 3.0 credit, 200 level course from one of the,following subjects: DAH (Art History), DEN (English), DAS,(Academic Studies), DVC (Visual Culture).

DIL-311 ILLUSTRATING WITH TRANSPARENT MEDIUMS

This course explores the wide range of techniques,employed when painting with transparent acrylic,,watercolor, and oil paint. Some of the methods,examined and applied by the students to create,illustrations in class are monochromatic,,under-painting, glazing, dry brush, scumbling,,wet-on-wet, gradations, renaissance, sfumato and,the combination and joining of traditional and,digital mediums. Successful and well-known,artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds,,genders, and sexual identity/orientations that,have used these methods are studied. Assignments,include figure, book, institutional, editorial,,landscape, product, and fashion illustration.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 246

DIL-363 CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATION

In this course, students explore the,characteristic of children’s book illustration,,including age, gender disability/differently-,abled, economic class, climate change/justice, and,global cultures. A variety of,techniques are explored relevant to the,translation of a story into visual form.,Professional conditions and business practices,connected to the profession of children’s book,illustration are considered. Sketchbooks are an,important component in the overall project mix.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 246

DLE-345 ART, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Will explore the various links between the visual,and literary arts through readings of plays,,poems, stories, novels, letters, manifestos,,etc. that have been written by and/or about,artists and designers.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Take one 3.0 credit, 200 level course from one of the,following subjects: DAH (Art History), DEN (English), DAS,(Academic Studies), DVC (Visual Culture).

DMA-202 ANIMATION III

In this course students study similarities and,differences between acting for animators and real,world acting, applying concepts to multiple,character interaction with sets and props,,exploring comedic timing, and conveying emotions,while emphasizing diverse character makeup in,order generate mass audience appeal.Students build,on knowledge from Animation I and II to refine,their skills working on techniques specifically,related in their area of concentration, lip sync,and film and character animation production,through the creation of a completed animation,short.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DMA 201