Creative Media, B.F.A.

First Year - First Semester

• CRE 125 - Integrated Studio Foundations
• COR 101 - Navigating Higher Education
• COR 102 - First Year Inquiry: Reading, Writing, & ____ (instructor topic)
• Primary Focus Area (1/6)
• 100-Level Studio Production Elective

First Year - Second Semester

• COR 103 - Core Foundations II: Navigating Your Information Landscape
• COR 104 - First Year Inquiry: Making, Doing _____ (instructor topic)
• CRE 180 - Making Culture: Seminar in Art & Popular Culture
• CRE 100 - Making Art
• Primary Focus Area (2/6)

Second Year - First Semester

• COR 201 - Core Foundations: Making Meaning through Science
• COR 202 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• CRE 225 - Art and Social Engagement
• COR 220 - Aesthetic Expressions
• Math Elective
• Secondary Focus Area (1/4)

Second Year - Second Semester

• COR 203 - Core Foundations: Making Meaning through Culture
• COR 204 - Theoretical Perspectives
• CRE 240 - Creative Media Professional Practices I
• Primary Focus Area (3/6)
• Secondary Focus Area (2/4)
• CRE 250 - Creative Media Projects I

Third Year - First Semester

• CRE 310 - Art and Global Perspectives
• SCI XXX - Science with Lab
• Primary Focus Area (4/6)
• COR 301 - Core Foundations: Connecting Place and Identity
• COR 302 - Field Methods

Third Year - Second Semester

• CRE 350 - Creative Media Portfolio 2
• Primary Focus Area (5/6)
• Secondary Focus Area (3/4)
• COR 303 - Core Foundations: Connecting Past and Present
• COR 304 - Digital Methods

Fourth Year- First Semester

• CRE 400 - Creative Media Professional Practices II
• Primary Focus Area (6/6)
• Secondary Focus Area (4/4)
• Upper Level Elective (1/2)
• General Elective

Fourth Year - Second Semester

• CCC 410CRE - Creative Media Capstone
• Professional Practices Elective
• Upper Level Elective (2/2)
• General Elective Course

Complementary Focus Areas

Primary Focus Areas

Total Credits 120

Foundations Elective (100-level studio)

Choose 1 course

• ART 110 - Drawing, Introductory
• ART 115 - Photography, Introduction to
• VCD 100 - Form and Color
• VCD 111 - Visual & Digital Fundamentals
• VCD 115 - The Digital Image
• GAA 125 - Drawing for Realism I
• WRT 120 - Creative Writing, Introduction to
• IXD 100 - Interaction Design I
• FLM 110 - Filmmaking, Introduction to
• BRD 110 - Video Storytelling
• GMD 110 - Introduction to Game Design
• CSI 100 - The Joy of Computing
• CSI 140 - Introduction to Programming
• CSI 160 - Python Programming
• FLM 128 - Screenwriting I
• BRD 130 - Audio Production
• SON 101 - Sound Studio Production
• SON 120 - Fundamentals of Digital Music

Professional Practices Elective

In addition to the 1-credit Professional Practices I course in the Sophomore year and the 3-credit Professional Practices II course in the Senior year, all CREM students will take one 3 credit elective in Professional Practices. The intention is to provide opportunity for more in-depth study of the professional applications of a creative area, or to build skills and aptitudes that support long term professional success in artistic endeavors. Options include courses addressing the business side of specific creative fields (ie Business of Music, Business of Film), and options addressing broad organizational and communication skills (Project Management, Public Speaking, Grant Writing). Courses that develop creative aptitudes or specific production skills (for example, Illustration, Web Design, Color Grading and Correction) are not included in this list. Interested students could still take those courses as part of their focus areas or as general electives.

Choose one course:

• SON 165 - Business of Music, The
• FLM 320 - The Business of Film
• WRT 346 - Publishing in the 21st Century
• BUS 110 - Business and the Entrepreneurial Mindset
• COM 110 - Public Speaking
• THE 140 - Fundamentals of Acting
• MKT 110 - Introduction to Marketing
• WRT 310 - Grant Writing
• WRT 231 - Writing for the Workplace
• BRD 250 - Show Producing I
• FLM 310 - Production Management
• MGT 270 - Business of Entrepreneurship

Upper Level Electives

Choose any two courses

• Integration of multiple media:

• WRT 347 - Transmedia Storytelling
• IXD 350 - Interaction Design Production
• GMD 330 - Interactive Storytelling

• Experimental traditions in the fine arts:

• ART 339 - Painting Other Worlds
• IXD 399 - Sonic Circuits
• FLM 383 - Experimental Moving Image

• Interdisciplinary:

• ART 380 - Advanced Art History:special Topics
• ART 351 - Public Art, Private Practices
• FLM 360 - Documentary Filmmaking II
• COM 405 - Performance, Protest and Terror
• PSY 360 - Media Psychology

• ART 330A, ART 330M Canadian Culture Through Music

  ART 330B, ART 330D, Ceol Na Heirann: Cultural Immersion Through Music 

  Cultural Immersion through Music (study abroad course in Dublin or Montreal)