Program Outcomes

Program Outcomes

• To have knowledge about the concepts related to the visual, spatial, sound, and motion aspects of digital technology, as well as interactive and temporal elements/features and the principles of their use in creating and applying digital media-based works.
• To understand narrative and other information/language structures for organizing content in time-based or interactive media and to have the ability to manage and represent content structures in ways that are sensitive to technological, social, and cultural systems.
• To understand the features and capacities of various technologies (hardware and software); their suitability for specific meaningful, functional, and strategic applications; their positions in broader contexts and systems, and their impacts on individuals and society.
• To know the development and coordination processes of digital-based art and design strategies (e.g., visual storyboarding, conceptual mapping, use of scenarios and personas).
• To have the ability to analyze and synthesize aspects of human interactions related to communication, objects, and environments provided through technology in various contexts (physical, cognitive, social, political, and economic).
• To understand what is usable, useful, effective, and desirable regarding user/audience-centered digital-based communication, objects, and environments.
• To know history, theory, and criticism related to film, video, technology, digital art, and design.
• To have the ability to work in teams and organize collaboration among people from different disciplines.
• To use the above skills to create and develop professional-quality digital media products.
• To gain a fundamental understanding of the nature of professional work in the field of expertise.
• To acquire skills necessary for engaging in professional work in their area of expertise, which will aid their career development and progression, including communication, presentation, and business skills.
• To explore areas of personal interest related to art/design in general or specifically.
• To research multidisciplinary subjects involving art and design.
• To apply art/design knowledge and skills in various learning activities, particularly those that involve minimal faculty guidance and emphasize evaluation at completion.
• To gain the ability to think, speak, and write clearly and effectively and to communicate with precision, conviction, and rhetorical power.
• To approach culture and history from various perspectives.
• To understand and have experience thinking about moral and ethical problems.