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DIMA PROGRAM GOALS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES<\/strong>
\nBachelor of Arts in Digital Interactive Media Arts<\/h4>\n

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DIMA PROGRAM GOALS<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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  1. To learn the value of interdisciplinary thinking, collaboration, and creative process.<\/li>\n
  2. To provide an interdisciplinary program in which students will acquire knowledge in fundamentals and specific area(s) of focus (Art, Media Production, Computer Science).<\/li>\n
  3. To conceptualize, plan, and execute creative ideas using appropriate DIMA technology.<\/li>\n
  4. To communicate effectively about ideas by discussing and defending creative work and critiquing others in relation to concepts, ideas, techniques, processes, and experiences.<\/li>\n
  5. To provide a learning environment in which students apply appropriate learning and skills to create new digital and interactive media content.<\/li>\n
  6. To provide access to exemplary digital, and interactive media software, equipment, and facilities.<\/li>\n
  7. To provide exemplary faculty who are actively engaged in their discipline.<\/li>\n
  8. To support experiential learning through internships and cooperative education.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    DIMA DEGREE LEARNING OUTCOMES<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    At the completion of this program students will be able to:<\/p>\n

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    1. Discuss and apply the concepts related to the visual, spatial, sound, motion, interactive, and temporal elements\/features of digital technology and principles for their use in the creation and application of digital media-based work.<\/li>\n
    2. Discuss and apply narrative and other information\/language structures for organizing content in time-based or interactive media.<\/li>\n
    3. Organize and represent content structures in ways that are responsive to technological, social, and cultural systems.<\/li>\n
    4. Discuss the characteristics and capabilities of various technologies (hardware and software); their appropriateness for particular expressive, functional, and strategic applications; their positions within larger contexts and systems, and their influences on individuals and society.<\/li>\n
    5. Discuss and apply processes for the development and coordination of digitally-based art and design strategies (for example, storyboarding, concept mapping, and the use of scenarios and personas).<\/li>\n
    6. Analyze and synthesize relevant aspects of human interaction in various contexts (physical, cognitive, cultural, social, political, and economic) and with respect to technologically-mediated communication, objects, and environments.<\/li>\n
    7. Analyze useful, usable, effective, and desirable information with respect to user\/audience-centered digitally-based communication, objects, and environments.<\/li>\n
    8. Discuss and apply history, theory, and criticism with respect to such areas as film, video, technology, and digital art and design.<\/li>\n
    9. Engage in teams-based work and to organize collaborations among people from different disciplines.<\/li>\n
    10. Use the above competencies in the creation and development of professional quality interactive digital media productions.<\/li>\n
    11. Develop knowledge of legal and ethical issues across disciplines.<\/li>\n
    12. Present work in a portfolio in a professional way.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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