Go to Content
Columbia College Chicago
Interactive Arts and Media BFA
Print this Page Email this Page
Udo Dahmen in Residency in Concert
Not only does Udo Dahmen have a prolific career as a performer; as Artistic Director, Director and Professor of Pop Academy Baden-Wuttemberg in Manheim and Vice President of the German Music Council h more...
CARTOONS: WHY WE NEED THEM
As the number of newspapers shrinks, the future of cartoonists is in question. This presentation will discuss the critical role cartoons and comics have played in American society. It will also examin more...

Interactive Arts and Media BFA

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interactive Arts and Media
 

BFA Application Process


Students may apply for the BFA after accumulating 60 credit hours. An artist statement or statement of intent, a web-based portfolio, and a “B” average in every departmental course and elective counting toward the major, is required. The portfolio must be a website dedicated to the BFA application process demonstrating significant effort and achievement in a representative body of work.


IAM BFA will require 128 credit hours,
84 of which are in IAM

Interactive Arts & Media Core Classes (15 Credits)  

36-1300  Digital Image Design  (3)  

36-1000  Media Theory & Design I  (3)  

36-2000  Media Theory & Design II  (3)  

36-2601  Authoring Interactive Media  (3)  

36-1501  Intro. to Programming: Theory & Concepts  (3)  

 

IAM Major Core: (21 credits)

36-2300       2D Imaging (3) 

36-2800       Story Development for Interactive Media (3) 

36-3100       Navigational Interfaces (3) 

39-2510       Object Oriented Programming (3)

36-1400       Sound for Interaction (3) 

36-3301       3D Composition for Interactive Media (3) 

39-2609       Sound & Motion (3) 

 

IAM BFA Core:  (24 Credits)

36-2440       Time Based Composing (3)

35-3620       Introduction to Robotics (3)

36-3630       Computer Controlled Installations (3)

36-3610       Digital Media Culture (3)

39-3110       Advanced Interfaces (3)

 35-2605       History of Computer Culture (3)

__-____       History choice (3)

__-____       History choice (3)

 

Electives: (15 Credits)

Interactive Arts and Media Elective Choices in Department. 

2000 or above level courses : Physical Interfaces,

Interactive Narratives, Social Media, Game Art and Computational Art and Processing are broad topics used as guidelines for students to focus their ideas and goals.

 

Capstone: (9 Credits)

Capstone Experience 

39-3600 IAM Team (6)

and

36-3999 IAM Practicum (3) 

 

 

84 credit hours……

IAM BFA Dates
IAM BFA Diagrams" src="http://collage.colum.edu:8080/servlet/images/cmcodeasp.gif" oncontrolselect="window.event.returnValue = false;">