BFA Programs » Multimedia / Web Design
Multimedia / Web Design
Multimedia/Web Design is a program that compliments the student’s traditional training with digital skills. Students learn to use several software programs to create interactive and time-based media that targets a specific market and objective.
Students in the Multimedia/Web Design program develop expertise in the use of computers to manipulate images, prepare print layouts and create web designs. Through the projects assigned, students apply graphic design concepts using typography, photography, illustration, web programming, interface design, video and animation. Students are also trained in image-processing, color correction and three dimensional model building.
All of these skills are applied to class assignments which require students to identify a target market, develop a concept for that market, and clearly communicate that concept both visually and verbally. The ability to manage workflow and multiple deadlines is essential in progressing from concept to output.
During their studies, students will produce a body of work which demonstrates their expertise in developing interactive and time based presentations displaying awareness of context of display, non-linear linking structures, time-based media, and user oriented navigational systems.

BFA Sample Curriculum
| Semester 1 |
Life Drawing I
Fundamentals I |
| Semester 2 |
Life Drawing II
Fundamentals II |
| Semesters 1 & 2 |
Humanities and Sciences Department Requirements:
(3 credit hours each)
English Language Arts I: The Written Process; Anatomy;
Survey of Art History I; Life Skills and Health Issues |
| Semester 3 |
Introduction to 2-D Design
Computer Graphic Foundations |
| Semester 4 |
Electronic Imaging
2-D Animation/Digital Video I |
| Semesters 3 & 4 |
Humanities and Sciences Department Requirements:
English Language Arts I: The Oral Process;
Survey of Art History II;
Vision, Light and Color; Quantitative Literacy |
| Semester 5 |
Web Design I: HTML
Intermediate 2-D Design |
| Semester 6 |
Multimedia I: Interactive Multimedia Design
2-D Animation/Digital Video II |
| Semesters 5 & 6 |
Humanities and
Sciences Department Requirements:
Creative Thinking; Art and Technology; Marketing, Film and Society |
| Semester 7 |
Multimedia II: Advanced Interactive Multimedia Design,
Web Design II: Web Authoring Tools or
Advanced Multimedia/Web Projects
Studio Elective-200, 300 or 400 level |
| Semester 8 |
(one of five) Web Design II: Web Authoring Tools, Multimedia
II: Advanced Interactive Multimedia Design,
Advanced Multimedia/Web Projects or Internship
Portfolio 400 |
| Semesters 7 & 8 |
Humanities and
Sciences Department Requirements:
(3 credit hours each)
Professional Writing, Film and Society:
World Cultures; Non-western Art;
Contemporary Visual Culture |
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