DS courses must satisfy at least one of the following areas:
- Integrate digital media as tools for research and dissemination in traditional scholarship
- Examine cultural, social, ethical, or theoretical implications of new media technologies
- Apply digital technologies to practical applications involving problem-based learning
- Develop knowledge and skills in new media and multimedia composition
Fall 2021
Digital Studies Program Offerings
50:209:210
Multimedia Thinking
TTH 9:35-10:55AM
WWC-AUD
Emmons
MW 11:10-12:30
WWC-AUD
Multimedia thinking is a way of making arguments and telling stories using digital media production tools. Multimedia thinking cultivates a transmedia perspective and involves the convergence of text, graphics, audio, and video, and the distribution of these assets over various media. Media may include video and sound, text, animation, still images, audio, or any form of non-physical media. Ideas are presented in a variety of formats including videos, comics, electronic literature, sound installations, remixes, mash-ups or video games. The course will begin with a theoretical and critical examination of media to prepare for their own digital media creations.
50:209:230
Computational Thinking
TTH 11:10-12:30AM
WWC-AUD
How do we use computation to solve problems? What kinds of problems are solvable with computation, and what kinds aren’t? This course offers students both practical and theoretical experience with computer programming. No previous programming experience is required.Required for the major in Digital Studies
50:209:301
Video Game Design
Hours by arrangement
This class practices exploration and creation of systems of meaning and knowledge in fictional and real world con/texts through operationalization, or the building of a bridge between concepts and the world. The course breaks down the fundamentals of game design as art, as well as enactions of theory, resistance, and expression, providing us with a vocabulary and critical understanding to enable us to both analyze and compose. The class will disassemble games and look at their fundamental building blocks: the mechanics, procedures, and systems that shape the player’s experience and emotions and the cultural contexts they invoke. The class combines several assignments to give a sense of what it takes to make a tabletop game: studying existing games, designing your own games, making your own game.
50:209:305
Internship in Digital Studies
Hours by arrangement
Emmons
Application of digital skills in a position as a digital lab or project assistant for the Rutgers-Camden Digital Studies Center. Individually designed and evaluated experience under supervision of intern adviser. Commitment of at least 30 hours per credit/100 hours for 3 Credits.
50:209:401
Digital Studies Capstone
Hours by arrangement
Emmons
Required of all students in the Digital Studies program, the capstone course involves working with a faculty advisor on a digital project designed and executed by the student. Students are also required to teach a 1-hour workshop based on a digital technology they have used or investigated in the course of the project.
50:209:406
Independent Study in Digital Studies II
Hours by arrangement
Emmons
An opportunity for advanced students to pursue their interests in digital humanities in a self-determined course of study under the direction of a faculty member.
Interdisciplinary Major Electives
The following courses can be counted towards the Digital Studies Major and Minor.
50:080:213 Graphic Design I: Computational Foundation
50:080:214 Interactive Art
50:080:264 Digital Photography I
50:080:265 Digital Photography II
50:080:279 Computer animation I
50:080:331 Graphic Design II Studio
50:080:388 3D Modeling and Printing
50:080:437 Graphic Design IV Studio
50:080:439 Special Topics in Graphic Design: Situationism
50:080:448 Character Animation
50:080:491 Electronics Arts Intrn
50:443:297 Special Topics in Gender Studies: Gender and Gaming
50:512:381 Special Topics in American History: Issues in Public History
50:750:307 Electronics
50:965:225 Video and Film Production
50:989:312 Writing New Media(W)
52:630:362 Principles of Digital Analytics
ALL 50:198 Computer Science Courses