Description and Program Learning Outcomes
A successful game designer must be fluent in a wide range of tools, practices, and ideas. With the emergence of open-source game engines and design software, designers have new and powerful tools to tell stories, build worlds, and create interactive experiences that redefine traditional notions of artmaking. The BFA in Game and Digital Media Design degree to is tailored toward aspiring digital artists who want to focus on the aesthetic experience of game design and digital art. Additionally, this curriculum identifies and cultivates the inevitable intersections between related disciplines to empower students with the critical and technical skills that produce sustainable art careers and industry professionals.
Program Learning Outcome #1-Develop a cohesive, competent body of work in one or more areas of Art and Design, and articulate its concepts and methods of production.
Program Learning Outcome #2-Research art historical sources to write critically and creatively about the Art and Design in terms of formal analysis, iconography, and cultural context.
Program Learning Outcome #3-Understand and articulate the interrelationship between the arts.
Program Learning Outcome #4-Analyze, interpret, and evaluate their own and others’ art works.
Program Learning Outcome #5-Through experiential opportunities, engage with the professional world of art and design, applying the principles of the field to new situations.