Designed for students who want to pursue a deeper dive into the ideas and making within emergent digital practices (EDP), the 4+1 MA program offers expanded professional preparation for leadership positions in arts, design and technology.
At its heart, the EDP program is interdisciplinary and focused on the public good. Adding the EDP MA to your BA gives you the opportunity to critically analyze and contextualize various areas of study in relation to technology and digital tools while materializing an engaging public project that demonstrates your voice. The 4+1 BA/MA doubles the number of EDP courses you will take, allowing for depth and complexity in your ideas and technical abilities, taking your liberal arts education to the next level.
At the end of the 4+1 BA/MA degree is a thesis project, a keystone experience that will serve as a portfolio and example for future employers of how you engage and empower others with thoughtfully applied technologies.
Emergent Digital Practices Provide:
Cutting-edge learning spaces that are equal parts laboratory, studio, think tank and stage
Digital Fabrication technologies, powerful imaging and sonification tools and a variety of interactive flex-spaces that allow students to gain experience with the most current tools
Small class sizes that allow students to work closely with faculty who are innovators in digital arts and design
Collaborations and projects with institutions like the Denver Art Museum, Denver Museum of Nature and Science and more
A broad understanding of new media literacies combined with practical and technical skills.
Featured Courses
EDPX 5700
Research Methods
About this Course
This course provides graduate students with the strategies and techniques of research in the area of digital media studies.
EDPX 4000
Digital Design Concepts
About this Course
An introductory course requiring conceptual, perceptual and manual skills to meet rigorous studio research into the history of mark-making, letter forms and layout designs as reflective of cultural, social, political and psychological contexts of interpretation. This class also emphasizes 2-D principles of design, including form, structure, conceptual understanding, visual aesthetics, semiotics, organizational systems, relationships of typography and imagery.
EDPX 5100
Graduate Critique
About this Course
The course focuses on student’s creative production. Critiques are moderated by a different faculty member each quarter. Conceptual, methodological and theoretical concerns are stressed. Critiques are designed to assist in the experimentation, preparation and construction of individual art projects. Time is also spent on preparing students for a professional practice in the Arts. Course may be repeated up to six times.
EDP is for critical thinkers who want to expand the potential of technology in art, design and culture
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