OVERVIEW

Interactive media

This concentration teaches our students the principles of designing interactivity and the user experience. The program focuses on creating complex interactive projects such as Web sites, DVDs, interactive narratives and game design, digital training courses and kiosks. Students learn how to use professional tools and techniques by working with interactive design software such as Photoshop, Flash, and Dreamweaver in our Macintosh-based interactive multimedia lab. Students are given the opportunity to create a wide range of exciting interactive projects for the web, CD-ROM and DVD.

The current focus of the Interactive Multimedia track is designing websites and interactive DVDs & CD-ROMs, although we are constantly evaluating and updating our program as technology changes. Today we design for the Web and DVDs; tomorrow we may be designing video games and creating content for cell phones & interactive HDTV. At advanced levels, students work in teams to develop complex projects, often for outside clients, such as the websites for the Fitchburg Art Museum and the Fitchburg Cultural Alliance.

"Many of the Communications Media faculty are helpful. My Interactive Media faculty go above and beyond expectations." Cheri Zenoni, Interactive Media Concentration student.

Required Courses:
COMM 3304 Interactive Media Project Design
COMM 3305 Interactive Media I
COMM 3306 Interactive Media II
COMM 3307 Interactive Media III
COMM 3309 Interface Design

Elective Courses
COMM 3308 Interactive Media Seminar
COMM 3350 DVD Authoring
COMM 3380 Game Design

For more information, consult the Undergraduate Catalog.

Visions

Each year students are given the opportunity to submit original work to be juried and possibly selected for our honors art exhibition, VISIONS. This is a showcase of the year's best student work. VISIONS involves a gallery exhibition and a film/video screening.

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