About Transmedia Core
No matter which of our majors you choose, your first year in the Department of Transmedia includes four core courses. In the fall semester, our Colloquium class explores an overview of media as art through faculty presentations and visiting artists, while our Studio Concepts course explores ideas and concepts of time and movement using digital technologies. In the spring semester, the Colloquium class continues, as does your exploration of studio problems in the class Interconnected Studios. After your first year, additional core courses are taken along with those in your major. This allows you to continue cross-disciplinary approaches to art-making and to build a community of collaboration and friendships.
In your first year you also have the opportunity to take studio and academic electives and begin courses in your major. You also take the UniversityÕs required writing studio in both semesters. Department of Transmedia Selected Topics courses include such topics as Introduction to Rhetoric and Visual Culture and Gender and Popular Culture.