Media Arts and Sciences

Description
With the media arts and sciences concentration, students enhance their program of study with integrated, interdisciplinary training in creative processes and technical skills in new media with cultural applications.

Students develop both the technical skills to create computational media and the cultural skills to know when or why to apply them. Students learn to create computational media (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 how people experience computational media, a critical skill in the dynamic 21st century. 

The School of Arts, Media and Engineering educates the next generation of learners and empowers them with technofluency --- its development, application and implications. The School of Arts, Media and Engineering prepares students to be socially aware, critically thinking global citizens who strive to bring about positive change in a society that is increasingly shaped by new technologies.

 Requirements

• A student must have a minimum GPA of 2.50 to be eligible to pursue the concentration
• A minimum grade of a "C" (2.00) or higher and an overall GPA of 3.00 is required in all classes in the concentration
• Students must complete a minimum of 21 credit hours including 12 of upper division hours for this concentration.
• A minimum of 12 upper-division credit hours must be taken at ASU.
• Students should carefully note the semester in which any of these courses are offered.  Information on course offerings for this concentration can be found at: https://webapp4.asu.edu/programs/t5/majorinfo/ASU00/HIDGCMIN/undergrad/true
• Prerequisite courses may be needed in order to complete the requirements of this concentration depending upon elective course selection.
• Students who declare the digital culture concentration cannot earn a certificate in digital culture.

Required Lower Division 6 hours

AME 111 Introduction to Digital Culture, CS (3) 

AME 112 Computational Thinking for Media Arts (3) 

OR AME 230 Programming for the Media Arts (CS)

Restricted Electives - 15 credit hours 

AME OR MDC Elective

AME or MDC Upper Division Elective