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3D Digital Design BFA
Program overview
Students in the 3D digital design major will learn to use 3D computer graphics in computer and video games, medical and scientific simulations, data visualization, models for architects and engineers, motion or broadcast graphics, instructional media accident reconstruction, and more. Traditional design skills using commercial 3D software are integrated with principles relating to time, motion, and lighting.
Curriculum
3D digital design, BS degree, typical course sequence (semesters), effective fall 2013
| Course | Sem. Cr. Hrs. | |
|---|---|---|
| First Year | ||
| DDDD-101 | Introduction to Modeling and Motion | 3 |
| FDTN-131 | 3D Design I | 3 |
| FDTN-141 | 4D Design | 3 |
| ARTH-135 | LAS Perspective 1: Survey of Western Art and Architecture I | 3 |
| LAS Foundation 1: First Year Seminar | 3 | |
| DDDD-102 | Introduction to Visual Design | 3 |
| FDTN-132 | 3D Design II | 3 |
| DDDD-103 | Imaging For 3D | 3 |
| ARTH-136 | LAS Perspective 2: Survey of Western Art and Architecture II | 3 |
| ENGL-150 | LAS Foundation 2: Writing Seminar | 3 |
| Wellness Education* | 0 | |
| Second Year | ||
| DDDD-201 | Modeling Strategies | 3 |
| DDDD-202 | Layers and Effects | 3 |
| FDTN-121 | 2D Design 1 | 3 |
| DDDD-203 | Scripting | 3 |
| LAS Perspective 3, 4 | 6 | |
| DDDD-206 | Service Project | 3 |
| DDDD-207 | Lighting, Materials, and Rendering | 3 |
| DDDD-208 | Anatomical Figure Drawing | 3 |
| Programming Elective | 3 | |
| Third Year | ||
| DDDD-301 | Professional Practice (WI) | 3 |
| 3DDD Major Electives | 6 | |
| DDDD-302 | History of Digital Graphics | 3 |
| Open Electives | 6 | |
| LAS Immersion 1, 2 | 6 | |
| DDDD-306 | Project Planning and Production | 3 |
| Art/Design/Crafts/Photo/Film History Elective† | 3 | |
| Fourth Year | ||
| DDDD-401 | Senior Thesis Testing and Documentation | 3 |
| DDDD-402 | Senior Thesis I | 3 |
| Open Electives | 6 | |
| LAS Immersion 3 | 3 | |
| DDDD-403 | Senior Thesis II | 3 |
| 3DDD Major Electives | 9 | |
| LAS Elective | 3 | |
| Total Semester Credit Hours | 120 | |
Please see New General Education Curriculum–Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) for more information.
(WI) Refers to a writing intensive course within the major.
* Please see Wellness Education Requirement for more information.
† Art history electives are non-studio courses offered in the colleges of Imaging Arts and Sciences or Liberal Arts that examine the historical aspects of art, design, crafts, photography, or film.
Art history electives
Students are required to select three art history electives to broaden their understanding of the historical development of the arts. Art history electives include:
ARTH-366 18/19th Century Art
ARTH-582 Medieval Craft
ARTH-561 Latin American Art
ARTH-354 Late Medieval Art
ARTH-583 Installation Art
ARTH-544 Illuminated Manuscripts
ARTH-586 History of Things: Studies in Material Culture
ARTH-566 Early Medieval Art
ARTH-577 Displaying Gender
ARTH-572 Art of the Americas
ARTH-558 The Gothic Revival
ARTH-587 The Gothic Cathedral
ARTH-571 Art and Architecture of Ancient Rome
ARTH-392 Theory and Criticism of 20th Century Art
ARTH-373 Art of the Last Decade
ARTH-369 20th Century Art Since 1950
ARTH-368 20th Century Art: 1900-1950
ARTH-457 Art and Activism
ARTH-511 Art and Architecture of Italy: 1250-1400
ARTH-512 Art and Architecture in Italy: 1600-1750
ARTH-518 Art and Architecture in Florence and Rome: The Sixteenth Century
ARTH-517 Art and Architecture in Florence and Rome: The Fifteenth Century
ARTH-573 Conceptual Art
ARTH-581 Realisms and Avant-Gardes in Russian Art
ARTH-576 Modernism and Its Other: Realism and Expressionism ARTH-521 The Image
ARTH-584 Scandinavian Modernism
ARTH-578 Edvard Munch
ARTH-574 Dada and Surrealism
ARTH-568 Art and Technology: from the Machine Aesthetic to the Cyborg Age
ARTH-588 Symbols and Symbol-Making: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art