New Media, Art & Technology - Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Offered at IU Kokomo by School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Offered 50-79% online

The Bachelor of Arts in New Media, Art, & Technology (NMAT) is an interdisciplinary degree that combines studio art and design with cognates in social media and public communications, pre-art therapy, marketing, and computer science.  Students will develop effective art and design skills across both traditional and digital media, preparing them for a variety of career paths.  Students will experience a robust set of core courses in New Media, Art, & Technology with interactions with all the faculty in the program.  The cognates provide additional skills and create valuable pathways into many occupations and graduate programs including but not limited to: art therapy, social media, integrated media, and media marketing.

The major consists of 48 credit hours of courses in New Media, Art, & Technology and 15-18 credit hours in a selected cognate.  Students are encouraged to tailor their coursework to focus on their interests and goals.  The BA degree offers a wider experience within general education.  Interdisciplinary seminar, foreign language, and historical perspectives expose students to a wider world view.

Mission

New Media, Art, & Technology is a program that prepares students to be critical, adaptive, inquisitive, effective, and creative thinkers, communicators, problem-solvers and creators, able to succeed as relevant professionals in a multitude of established and emerging fields.

Goals

Students who complete the program will:

• understand how to produce industry-standard art and media works
• have the practical and theoretical knowledge to critique works
• posses the verbal, historical and theoretical knowledge to present their work to a variety of audiences
• produce a written thesis and small portfolio of their work suitable for advancement within their chosen field