Bachelor of Fine Arts: Emerging Media Arts
The most exciting developments in film and emerging media arts today reside at the boundaries, where storytelling intersects with science, the humanities, computer science, engineering, music, fine arts, and other disciplines. The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Emerging Media Arts (BFA-EMA) is designed to prepare students to build careers, businesses and enterprises across these intersections and meet the future needs of industry.
After a foundational year in creative coding, visual expression, storytelling and entrepreneurship, students will select two emphases in Emerging Media Arts:
- Cinematic Arts: filmmaking
- Virtual Production: animation, motion graphics, 3D modeling
- Immersive + Interactive Media: games, VR, AR, XR, interactive and immersive environments
- Story: writing for emerging media arts
- Experience Design: designing projects and experiences that synthesize the virtual and the real
- Sonic Arts: Sound design
- Sensory Media: Physical computing, wearable technologies, human computer interaction, hardware and software
- Data+ Art: generating art with AI, data and the Internet of Things
Careers
- Filmmaker
- Storyteller
- AR/VR Designer
- App Designer
- Experience Designer
- Sound designer
- Data Visualization
- Animator
- VFX
- Physical computing
- Entrepreneur
- Innovation Designer
- Creative Technologist
- IOT Data Creative
- Artist
- Ethical Technology Advocate
- Editor
- Writer
- Activist
- Wearable technology designer
- Inventor
- … and whatever is now and next
Application to this program
Students considering Emerging Media Arts must complete the required application. This application applies to both incoming freshman and transfer students and is used to evaluate a student’s suitability for the Emerging Media Arts program. The application information is also used for awarding scholarships
(individual awards vary).
Sample 4-year Plan
Year 1
| Course | Credit Hours |
|---|---|
| IGNITE | 0 cr |
| Story Lab I (ACE 7) | 3 cr |
| Visual Expression Studio (ACE 2) | 3 cr |
| Computation and Media Studio (ACE 3) | 3 cr |
| Games, Play and Performance | 3 cr |
| ACE 5 | 3 cr |
| Total Credits | 15 |
| Course | Credit Hours |
|---|---|
| IGNITE | 0 cr |
| Story Lab II | 3 cr |
| Visual Expression Studio | 3 cr |
| Computation and Media Studio | 3 cr |
| Ethics of Emerging Media Arts (ACE 8) | 3 cr |
| ACE 4 | 3 cr |
| Total Credits | 15 |
Year 2
| Course | Credit Hours |
|---|---|
| IGNITE | 0 cr |
| Emphasis A Course | 3 cr |
| From Greeks to Geeks | 3 cr |
| Sound Lab | 3 cr |
| Transdisciplinary Course | 3 cr |
| ACE 1 | 3 cr |
| Total Credits | 15 |
| Course | Credit Hours |
|---|---|
| IGNITE | 0 cr |
| Emphasis A Course | 3 cr |
| Emphasis B Course | 3 cr |
| Intro to Entrepreneurial Management | 3 cr |
| ACE 9 | 3 cr |
| Elective | 3 cr |
| Total Credits | 15 |
Year 3
| Course | Credit Hours |
|---|---|
| IGNITE | 0 cr |
| Innovation Studio (theme based atelier) | 3 cr |
| Emphasis A Course | 3 cr |
| Emphasis B Course | 3 cr |
| Transdisciplinary Course | 3 cr |
| Elective | 3 cr |
| Total Credits | 15 |
| Course | Credit Hours |
|---|---|
| IGNITE | 0 cr |
| Innovation Studio (theme based atelier) | 3 cr |
| Emphasis B Course | 3 cr |
| Transdisciplinary Course | 3 cr |
| Elective | 3 cr |
| Elective | 3 cr |
| Total Credits | 15 |
Year 4
| Course | Credit Hours |
|---|---|
| IGNITE | 0 cr |
| Capstone (ACE 10) | 3 cr |
| Emphasis A Course | 3 cr |
| Emphasis B Course | 3 cr |
| Elective | 3 cr |
| Elective | 3 cr |
| Total Credits | 15 |
| Course | Credit Hours |
|---|---|
| IGNITE | 0 cr |
| Capstone | 3 cr |
| World Ready | 3 cr |
| Elective | 3 cr |
| Elective | 3 cr |
| Elective | 3 cr |
| Total Credits | 15 |