Media Arts and Sciences (Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance), BA
Do you wish you could immerse yourself in exciting, innovative technologies and media while using practices of humanities and global thinking? Whether you enjoy crafting technology from scratch or designing new ways to imagine technological futures, you'll learn to create, develop and engage the technological world around you.
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STEM-OPT extension eligible: Yes
International students (F1) can extend U.S. work experience by 24 months.
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Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
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Degree description
The GAME School educates the next generation of learners, empowering you with technofluency --- its development, application and implications. You are prepared to be a socially aware, critically thinking global citizen who strives to bring about positive change in a society that is increasingly shaped by new technologies.
In the Bachelor of Arts program in media arts and sciences, you gain the knowledge, abilities and technical skills you need for creating computational media.
You learn to create computational media, which is computation combined with objects, sound, video, time, space, culture and bodies; breathe behavior into media, objects or systems by programming; and think critically about how computation impacts lives and how culture makes a difference in the ways that you experience computational media --- a critical skill in this dynamic era.
This concentration in interdisciplinary arts and performance is offered in partnership with the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. The program focuses on a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach to the arts, technology and performance. It emphasizes the traditions of transdisciplinary, avant-garde and experimental arts, and contemporary art and performance. Courses include digital media arts, music and electronic sound art, performance studies, theater and performance practice, and digital graphics.
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The following learning outcomes highlight some of the knowledge and skills you'll develop to support your future success.
- Create digital media systems, using a cross-disciplinary lens of research and theories from humanities, arts, and sciences through a final capstone project.
- Critique digital media systems through a multi-disciplinary framework, including the critical exploration of media arts applications and knowledge of principles of communication and generation of knowledge.
- Integrate knowledge from interdisciplinary arts and performance to create innovative, participatory media and live experiences.
Create digital media systems, using a cross-disciplinary lens of research and theories from humanities, arts, and sciences through a final capstone project.Admission requirements
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All students are required to meet general university admission requirements.
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Explore expanded study opportunities
When you pursue concurrent degrees (also known as a “double major”), you earn two distinct degrees and receive two diplomas. Working with your academic advisor, you can create your own concurrent degree combination. Some combinations are not possible due to high levels of overlap in curriculum.
Exploring programs around the globe furthers students' ability to apply their studies to a global context. With more than 300 Global Education program opportunities available to them, media arts and sciences students are able to tailor their experience to their specific interests and skill sets. Whether in a foreign country, in the U.S. or online, students build communication skills, learn to adapt and persevere, and are exposed to research and internships across the world, increasing their professional network.
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Equipped with skills and sound judgment, graduates of the media arts and sciences program work in cultural communication, marketing, design, social media, health, education, entertainment and creative arts, and all areas in which culture is shaped by technology and computational media. All graduates have learned techniques to change the world and communicate using contemporary computational media, a vital power in the modern world. Some go on to invent fresh techniques.
Graduates have a wide array of career opportunities in new media involving the fields of:
- communications (Cisco, Google, Facebook)
- computing (Apple, Microsoft)
- gaming and entertainment (Industrial Light & Magic, Electronic Arts, Pixar)
- media arts (engineering multimedia shows, video and sound production)
Graduates are also prepared for roles in the development of modern media systems that address complex sociotechnical problems, such as:
- diagnostic, monitoring and assistive cyber-physical tools and systems that can be used by health care providers
- new systems for collaborative, participatory content creation and sharing
- social networking and reflection tools for promoting sustainability
- systems for interactive, adaptive learning and computational assessment in educational organizations
Graduates who are interested in continuing their higher education are well prepared to apply to the nation's top interdisciplinary new media programs, including graduate programs in The GAME School.
Media arts and sciences alumni have received job opportunities in:
- audio and video
- engineering
- graphic design
- illustration
- iOS development
- journalism
- programming
- software engineering
- special effects
- 3D modeling and fabrication
- visual media
Contact information
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The GAME School
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STAUF-B 217
ameed@asu.edu
480-965-9432
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