Media arts program

Go into any art gallery, and they are there. We bet there's even a screen in your pocket right now. Someone has to decide what those screens look like Someone has to make them relevant. Someone needs to make them beautiful. Whether you're interested in filmmaking, game design, animation, internet art, manga, mobile media or worlds beyond, a degree in media arts at South Carolina will prepare you to be a creator in tomorrow's media landscape. Our students are agile, independent artists who are driving the next wave in media culture.

Do you want to produce radio or television programs? Or perhaps you dream of making an award-winning film or documentary? An innovative curriculum along with engaged faculty and staff makes our MRTS program one of the nation's best. We provide you a strong, theoretical education combined with hands-on experience utilizing the same equipment used by industry professionals.

You'll have access to:. Our students annually compete in international and national film festivals and student competitions. Recently, one of our students won the U. UNT was also one of three schools recognized internationally by the Eastman Kodak Foundation for outstanding filmmaking.

In addition to earning a bachelor's degree, you can earn certificates in television news producing, media management and Spanish language media. History of media arts : A critical history of emerging media studies. Students will also explore the use of sound in physical installations and the application of sound to sonify data sets. Entrepreneurship : Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and business creation through an existing course offered by the College of Business.

They will learn the business models and economics of emerging media arts and speculate what they could be in the future — internet based streaming, virtual and augmented reality, mobile apps, blockchain technologies, etc. Innovation Studio 2 semesters : Students will actively apply their growing skillset through this team-taught theme-based course.

Each year, faculty, students and industry partners will collaborate to select a unifying idea or theme and conduct a series of projects, readings, and field trips that relate to this theme.

This offers students opportunities to consider and address problems — theoretical, conceptual and practical. This depth enables students to apply theories and methods as they learn to synthesize knowledge into advanced reasoning and, eventually, emerging media arts practices that align work across media and methods.

Capstone 2 semesters : In the year-long capstone experience, students will develop a team, create, organize, prototype, and complete a fully realized work ready for distribution via appropriate media. The capstone project will ensure that the student develops autonomy—through a project-based thesis, in which they imagine, pitch, budget, execute, and deliver a project, as an individual or group, meeting deadlines, demonstrating breadth and depth, interdisciplinary thinking, communication skills, professionalism, and mastery of emerging media arts.

To this end, students will be required to take at least three courses in a discipline outside of the BFA-EMA for their interdisciplinary concentration. Electives offer BFA-EMA students the opportunity to take more emerging media arts courses beyond the requirements or to broaden their interdisciplinary knowledge by taking courses outside the major, including the possibility of a minor.