Degree Requirements

The New Media Arts Department offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in New Media Arts, Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) in New Media Arts, and a New Media Arts Minor

The New Media Arts program educates students in the field of New Media for the purpose of leveraging technology to build Native communities. Our faculty is dedicated to critical thought, inquiry and share a commitment to quality teaching. We offer a rigorous and comprehensive level of study primarily in the fields of filmmaking, graphic & web design and cross-disciplinary media studies.

PHILOSOPHY

We believe that informed, educated and digitally-enabled storytellers can actively support, maintain and advance Native culture for future generations. We are passionate about learning and applying new technologies as a method to build and sustain Native communities.  Additionally, the program ensures that students will learn how to leverage the power of media in its various forms towards the advancement of the Native community in the social, cultural, economic and political realms.

Goals

The goals of the New Media Arts Department are to:

• provide state-of-the-art technologies and facilities which ensure student creative and artistic exploration.
• develop students’ ability for sophisticated storytelling
• develop students’ ability to employ ingenious uses and application of technology, media and art.
• provide knowledge of and marketable skills in industry-grade hardware and software for the development and deployment of various forms of media
• enable students to recognize the power of media as a means to creating positive change in a community
• develop media literacy in order to evaluate the influence of the media upon those who have traditionally been under-served by the media
• create uses of New Media to respond appropriately to the needs facing Native and indigenous communities.
• help students learn the skills that will ensure their long-term success as artists in the fields of New Media, including film, visual communications and cross-disciplinary media.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students will be able to:

• identify and choose the best approach to creating media content
• understand and recognize the interplay between storyteller and audience
• demonstrate a competent application of editorial decision-making in their work
• leverage technology in useful ways to build community through dialogue
• synthesize and incorporate constructive criticism into revisions of work
• apply skills learned in the classroom into the professional world

Graphic and Interactive Design

Bachelor of Fine Arts

125 Credits