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.