NEW MEDIA

FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE:

WILLIAM G. CHRIST, Ph.D., Professor, Communication

AARON DELWICHE, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Communication; Chair

ROBERT HUESCA, Ph.D., Professor, Communication

MARK B. GARRISON, Ph.D., Alice P. Brown Professor of Art and Art History

J. PAUL MYERS, JR., Ph.D., Professor, Computer Science

PATRICIA SIMONITE, M.F.A., Associate Professor, Art and Art History

Trinity’s interdisciplinary minor in New Media is designed to prepare students to function professionally, academically, and personally in diverse new media environments. The required courses provide a foundation upon which students build an understanding of New Media in relation to art, communication, computer science, art history, English, engineering, philosophy, psychology, and/or music. The minor promotes new media research, development, and design while preparing students for careers in new media and other fields being transformed by evolving communication technologies. Students interested in declaring a minor in New Media should contact Professor William Christ; each student will then be assigned to a minor advisor.

THE MINOR

The requirements for a minor in New Media are:

21 semester hours, with no more than 9 hours in any one subject area, and at least 9 upper division hours.

Required courses: 12 hours

ART 2380                Digital Art

ARTH 1308              Art History II: Renaissance to Modern Art

*COMM 3344           Interactive Multimedia Communication [one of three topics: 1) Web Design; 2) Interactive Narratives; 3) Games for the Web]

CSCI 1304               Computers and Society (or higher level CSCI course)

Elective courses: 9 hours with 6 hours in “Application” and 3 hours in “Context”

Application: 6 hours

ART 3380                Advanced Digital Art

*COMM 3340           Media Writing: Reporting on/for the Internet

*COMM 3344           Interactive Multimedia Communication [one of three topics not already taken: 1) Web Design; 2) Interactive Narratives; 3) Games for the Web]

CSCI 3353               Graphics

ENGR 1381              Engineering Analysis and Design I

MUSC 3305             Electronic Music

Context: 3 hours

ART 3314                Issues in Contemporary Art

ARTH 3360              Twentieth-Century Art

ARTH 3365              Contemporary Architecture

CLAS 1306              Ancient Science and Technology

COMM 3328             Media, Culture, and Technology

DRAM 2310             Principles of Design

ENGL 3330              Literature and the Visual Arts

PHIL 3331                Philosophy of Mind

PHIL 3350                Philosophy of Culture

PHIL 3355                Aesthetics

PSYC 2330              Fundamentals of Cognition

PSYC 3341              Social Psychology

* Note: Courses are approved by the New Media minor committee only for the specific topic listed.