Program Learning Outcomes

• Apply the Principles of Animation to create compelling and engaging visual narratives
• Design and produce 2D, 3D, and hybrid assets—including characters, environments, props, and effects—for various media.
• Animate sequences that effectively convey storytelling, timing, and motion principles across different formats.
• Develop interactive mechanics, immersive environments, and simulations using industry-standard tools and workflows.
• Collaborate in team-based production environments by planning, communicating, and executing tasks to create professional-quality projects.
• Optimize assets, animations, and code to improve performance and efficiency across various media platforms.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Employ basic tools and techniques in a professional recording studio environment.
• Interpret how individual audio and visual elements can combine to create a proficient product.
• Create projects and events that involve other students and faculty.
• Generate solutions to narrative, musical, hardware and software problems proficiently.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Employ advanced tools and techniques to create audio hardware and software.
• Use critical thinking to design circuits and audio centered software.
• Create audio engineering projects that involve other students, faculty, community members and industry professionals.
• Generate solutions to hardware and software problems in a singular and outstanding way.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Apply basic signal flow principles in both analog and digital studio environments.
• Adapt to diverse roles and workflows in collaborative settings involving students, instructors, and external clients or community partners.
• Deliver audio projects using professional standards.
• Reflect critically on artistic and technical choices in audio production.

• Employ advanced tools and techniques in a professional recording studio environment.
• Interpret how individual media, hardware, and software elements can combine to create something of superior quality.
• Create projects and events that involve other students, faculty, community members and industry professionals.
• Generate solutions to narrative, musical, game design, hardware and software problems in a singular and outstanding way.

• Operate cinema-grade camera, lighting, and audio equipment used on professional sets throughout the world.
• Execute on-set safety standards and professional protocols.
• Create short narrative and documentary filmed content.
• Describe how current cinematic trends reflect and break from historical precedents.
• Address cinematic story challenges across the entire production process, from pre-production with script writing and development to post-production through editing using professional software.

• Compose cinematic camera and lighting presentations which are both aesthetically appealing and enhance story.
• Direct a cast or subjects and a crew using professional protocols to complete a quality piece of filmed content.
• Produce short narrative and documentary filmed content in collaboration with other creative contributors.
• Edit narrative and documentary projects using a variety of creative approaches, advanced techniques, and professional software.
• Write compelling scripts for digital media content using professional formatting, story structure, character arc, and cinematic storytelling techniques.
• Demonstrate a personal artistic voice in an area of specific concentration and expertise.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate a strong familiarity and proficiency with professional software for video editing, audio production and editing, basic animation, and web development.
• Demonstrate understanding and competency with the production pipeline of at least two of the following: Digital Cinema Production, Digital Audio Production, Web & App Development, and Animation.
• Demonstrate mastery over media file formats, conversion protocols, and storage frameworks.
• Use critical thinking skills to solve industry-related problems on real world projects and in collaboration with other students.
• Carry out applied learning activities focused on the production and post production process for digital media productions.

• Apply critical thinking skills to solve industry-related problems.
• Identify career opportunities within the digital media industry.
• Create media assets for use in introductory-level projects.
• Produce introductory-level projects using current industry tools and techniques.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Employ advanced sound design tools and techniques in a professional recording studio environment.
• Interpret how individual audio and visual elements can combine to create something of superior quality.
• Create sound design projects and events that involve other students, faculty, community members and industry professionals.
• Generate solutions to narrative problems in a singular and outstanding way.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Employ advanced game sound tools and techniques in a professional game studio environment.
• Interpret how individual game development elements can combine to create something of superior quality.
• Create game projects that involve other students, faculty, community members and industry professionals.
• Generate solutions to narrative, musical, game design, hardware and software problems in a singular and outstanding way.

• Apply professional design skills and problem-solving to create digital solutions while effectively communicating concepts in both verbal and written forms.
• Utilize industry-standard hardware and software to develop solutions for student and real-world projects.
• Create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes using industry-standard tools to translate user needs into functional digital experiences.
• Refine design concepts through feedback and usability testing, iterating to improve the final product.

• Demonstrate proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and server-side programming languages.
• Demonstrate competence in designing, developing, and maintaining responsive and accessible websites and web applications including debugging code, optimizing performance, and ensuring security best practices.
• Analyze complex problems related to web development and apply appropriate methodologies and technologies to devise effective solutions.
• Apply design principles to create intuitive and engaging web sites and applications.

• Markup a website using semantically appropriate HTML5 tags.
• Use media queries and mobile first design to create responsive page templates.
• Build single page web and mobile applications using JavaScript.
  Implement user experience design strategies to build applications and web sites that lead to a call to action.
• Design simple and understandable user interfaces and interactions for desktop, mobile, and web.
• Design and build digital video, audio, photographic, and textual assets.
• Demonstrate the ability to be a contributing member of a team.

• Apply technical knowledge of script formatting, writing for camera and audio, and production requirements to create scripts suitable for professional media production.
• Analyze storytelling principles such as structure, character development, and audience engagement by evaluating a variety of film production styles and narrative forms.
• Evaluate scripts by identifying storytelling strengths and challenges, offering constructive feedback to peers, and revising one’s own work using industry-standard editing techniques.
• Produce a complete, long-form media script (minimum of 45 minutes) that reflects professional standards in storytelling, formatting, and narrative development.
• Describe the business and economic considerations of professional media writing, including industry practices, market demands, and career pathways..