The Digital Arts Minor provides opportunities to explore creativity through digital media arts. This program is open to students from all areas of UCI who want to acquire a working knowledge of how digital media content is conceived, constructed and performed.
In the studio, students receive hands-on experience with current software tools, creating and sharing digital media art projects, developing an appreciation of digital media aesthetics and conceptual design, and learning the fundamentals of desktop video, audio and web authoring software applications. Lectures and discussions examine how today’s pervasive digital culture evolves through interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, engineers, scientists and scholars. Coursework considers relationships between digital media practices, touching on such areas as social networking, video/audio podcasting, interface design, digital music, telematic performance, intelligent agents, virtual realities, artificial life and ubiquitous computing. The program investigates critical issues related to emerging technologies and the arts, and surveys recent works by leading digital media artists.
Completion of the Digital Arts Minor requires eight courses, consisting of six required courses plus two electives:
Each of these courses may be taken one time only for credit toward the Digital Arts Minor (with the exception of topic-varies courses, e.g. Studio Art 100). None of the required six courses may be taken Pass/Not Pass.
We strongly recommend that all students complete Arts 1A, 11 and 12 during their first year enrolled in the Digital Arts Minor. Note that these courses are prerequisites for Arts 50, 60 and 70.
Arts 1D and 1E (offered 2007 and prior) may be substituted for Arts 11 and 12.
See the Courses page for details on current course offerings.