American River College
The Art New Media program emphasizes visual arts produced in a digital environment. While all new media are intimately linked to new technology, it is essential for a designer or artist to have a strong foundation in the fundamentals of visual art. Course work includes a wide spectrum of studies in traditional and new media fundamentals relevant to art and design. Interactive Multimedia Basics. Hours: 36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB. This course demonstrates how to create simple vector-based graphics, animation, buttons, movies and raster files in a web environment. Topics include drawing tools, time-line effects, sound and video integration and basic interactivity. Interactive Multimedia Projects 4 Units. Hours: 54 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB. This course focuses on interactive multimedia project development. Emphasis is placed on the project development cycle including design specification, research, production, modification, and presentation. Projects assigned are multifaceted, approaching the complexity that individuals would be expected to encounter in the interactive multimedia development industry. Internship in Art New Media. Hours: 18 hours LEC; 60-240 hours LAB. This course provides supervised internship in the field of Art New Media which includes graphic design, multimedia and web graphics. It also includes essential aspects of project development and management.
