Creative Computational Media, Undergraduate Certificate (Information and Computer Sciences)

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The Undergraduate Creative Computational Media (CCM) Certificate Program provides students and industry professionals with training necessary to enter exciting and lucrative immersive media job markets, such as video game and eSports design and development, digital film production and special effects, new media theatre and dance performance, interactive digital media installation development, and exhibit design for museums, theme parks, or marketing/advertising.

CCM Certificate is offered in collaboration with ACM: The School of Cinematic Arts (CINE) and the Department of Theatre & Dance (Arts and Humanities), the Department of Electrical Engineering (College of Engineering), and the Department of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) (College of Natural Sciences).

Requirements

Students must complete 18 credits of required and elective courses with a minimum of 9 credits from upper division courses and a cumulative GPA of 2.5 for the certificate courses taken.

Prerequisites (3 credits)

ICS 110 - (Alpha) Introduction to Computer Programming Credits: 3
OR
ICS 111 - Introduction to Computer Science I Credits: 4
OR
ECE 160 - Programming for Engineers Credits: 4

Required Courses (9 credits)

CINE 215 - Introduction to 3D Animation Credits: 3
ICS 369 - Computational Media Systems Credits: 3
OR
ECE 369 - Computational Media Systems Credits: 3
ICS 486 - Virtual and Augmented Reality Programming Credits: 3
OR
CINE 419 - Virtual and Augmented Reality Programming Credits: 3

Elective Courses (9 credits)

Additional electives identified by students may be considered through a petitioning process, whose approval can be conducted in collaboration with the affected departments.

CINE 216 - Introduction to 2D Animation Credits: 3
CINE 255 - Introduction to Cinema and Digital Media Credits: 3
CINE 315 - 3D Modeling Credits: 3
CINE 316 - 3D Animation Credits: 3
CINE 317 - 3D Lighting, Camera, and Rendering Credits: 3
CINE 321 - Storyboarding and Animatics Credits: 3
CINE 325 - Motion Graphics Credits: 3
ICS 464 - Human Computer Interaction I Credits: 3
ICS 484 - Data Visualization Credits: 3
OR
CINE 484 - Data Visualization Credits: 3
OR
DATA 484 - Data Visualization Credits: 3
ICS 485 - Video Game Design and Development Credits: 3
OR
CINE 487 - Video Game Design and Development Credits: 3
DNCE 362 - Visual Media for Dance Credits: 3
DNCE 673 - Advanced Dance Technology and Live Performance Credits: 3