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2010 PROGRAM PLAN OVERVIEW

INTRODUCTION

Following an extensive industry assessment where over 50 individual companies were surveyed and interviewed, we have made some changes to our program. This is a routine process that we undertake every four years, as a means to ensure that we are preparing our students to succeed in the professional digital media marketplace. Some of the changes were also made to meet the NASAD requirements for accreditation. Our school is due for its 10 year review next Spring.

HERE IS AN OVERVIEW OF THE CHANGES:

Addition of Independent Thesis work:

The addition of 2 senior level thesis courses that will allow students to customize their portfolios to meet the needs of the industries they will be entering.

Addition of Program Electives:

The addition of these 5 elective courses will allow flexibility in the degree to which students can specialize or generalize and will make it far easier for a student to change their focus in their Sophomore or Junior year.

Elimination of Separate Program Plans:

Every student will be on the same program plan. You can still focus in a particular field, by choosing courses in that field for your 5 Program Electives and you can concentrate your thesis course work there as well. However, with this change you can also take a more generalist approach. And, it will give you the ability to change your focus at any time. To see how to focus using your Program Electives, click on the main menu item called 'Program Electives by Focus'.

The Digital Illustration Focus is the Most Effected. There is a strong demand by the game, advertising, animation and film industries to hire and contract artists that can create within an all-digital work flow. The new 2010 plan focuses more heavily on digital tools.

Keep in mind Every course in Digital Media will be a Digital Imaging (Illustration) course for you. It will simply be applied to Animation, Games, Story-boarding, Comics, 3D Modeling, etc. To see examples of how this works, check out the 'Student Work' section of the Kendallweblab.com site.

All of the course descriptions received some updating. These were driven by the data compiled from our industry surveys. Some consistent updates include; more collaboration between students, increased attention to project planning and creative problem solving as well as an emphasis on portfolio building.

CURRICULUM STRUCTURE

FOUNDATION [STUDIO]

GD 112 GRAPHICS STUDIO I

GD 113 DESIGN & COLOR

DR 131 DRAWING I or DS 142 DESIGN DWG I

DR 132 DRAWING II or DS 143 DESIGN DWG II

DM 241 DIGITAL IMAGING I

DR 221 FIGURE DWG I or GD 214 TYPE I

DR 222 FIGURE DWG II or GD 220 TYPE II

DIGITAL MEDIA CORE [STUDIO]

DM 231 SOUND DESIGN I

DM 243 DIGITAL IMAGING II