New Media

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New Media

Associate Professor Bradbury (Director); Professor Han; Associate Professors Cloninger, Oakley; Assistant Professors Hursty, Kusek; Lecturer Cosette

The New Media major at UNC Asheville focuses on creativity and innovation in the study of new media within a liberal arts education. We encourage students to think critically, take risks, and collaborate across disciplines. New Media students acquire a foundation in two- and three-dimensional animation, digital video art and production, and interactive media, coupled with advanced study in their chosen area of concentration. By balancing theory, criticism, and practice, students develop a nuanced understanding of new media art and creative media design principles within a liberal arts context.

We prepare our students to be new media artists, while encouraging serious play, self-discipline, lifelong learning, and community service. Upon graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, students will have the theoretical background, technical experience, and creative problem-solving skills required for professional careers in creative media, design, new media art, or for graduate studies.

Program Objectives

• Students develop a varied array of new media skills, allowing them to clearly communicate concepts and to persuasively influence society.
• Students recognize their own agency as media artists, and become confident exercising that agency to modulate and change the world.
• Students gain a broad awareness of their own goals in the context of contemporary global/networked cultures, demonstrating respect and courtesy toward the differences of others.
• Students negotiate an ongoing personal ethic of innovation and risk regarding cultural and enviromental sustainability and stewardship. 
• Students begin to understand the ways in which art, media, and culture affect one another and society.
• Students develop a critical vocabulary with which to describe and analyze new media –verbally and in writing.
• Students invent a robust and sustainable foundation which will support a lifelong art practice that combines self-directed studio work, rigorous research, and theoretical inquiry.

Declaration of Major in New Media

The student must have an overall GPA of 2.0 prior to declaring a major in New Media.

New Media

Programs

• •  New Media
• •  New Media Minor

Courses

• NM 101 - Digital Design Principles (4)
• NM 142 - New Media History and Theory (4)
• NM 144 - History of Animation: From Pencils to Pixels (4)
• NM 146 - Video Game Studies (4)
• NM 201 - Think Graphic: Print and Type (4)
• NM 231 - Introductory Interactive Media (4)
• NM 251 - Introduction to Motion Media (4)
• NM 281 - Introduction to Video Art and Design (4)
• NM 310 - Intermediate Computer Animation (4)
• NM 313 - Virtual Reality (CSCI 313) (4)
• NM 320 - Intermediate Interactive Media (4)
• NM 330 - Internet Art (4)
• NM 332 - Experimental Media (4)
• NM 340 - Internship (2-6)
• NM 344 - History of Design (4)
• NM 350 - Intermediate Video (4)
• NM 360 - Digital Creation Lab: 3D Printing (4)
• NM 410 - Advanced Animation Techniques (4)
• NM 420 - Advanced Interactive Media (4)
• NM 438 - Senior Capstone Project (2)
• NM 450 - Advanced Video (4)
• NM 490 - Proseminar and Portfolio (2)
• NM 499 - Undergraduate Research in New Media (1-4)

• NM 171-4 - Special Topics in New Media (1-4)
• NM 271-4 - Special Topics in New Media (1-4)
• NM 371-4 - Special Topics in New Media (1-4)
• NM 471-4 - Special Topics in New Media (1-4)

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