New Digital Production Arts Minor

The School of Computing is excited to announce the initiation of a new undergraduate minor in Digital Production Arts. It is designed so that students receive significant training across the artistic and technical disciplines that underlie computer animation, visual effects, and computer games. The Minor's core is a new course in studio methods for 3D graphics and animation that will be centered on the open-source Blender system. The Minor also features new two-semester course sequences that teach computer scientists and engineers relevant foundation concepts in art, and that teach artists and architects relevant foundation concepts in computer science and mathematics. Students in other majors complete a subset of these courses. The DPA Minor will be officially offered beginning in the Fall of 2011. However, students wishing to select this minor may begin their coursework immediately. Following is the catalog description of the Minor:

A minor in Digital Production Arts must include DPA 307 and completion of one of the following groups:

Group I, for Art or Architecture majors - DPA 400, 401 and two of CPSC 404, 405, 416 or 419.
Group II, for Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computer Information Systems majors - DPA 402, 403 and two of ART 205, 213, 421 or GC 102, 340.
Group III, for all other majors - DPA 400, 401, 402 and one of CPSC 404, 405, 416 or 419.

Additional information can be found here.