Our Mission:
The Digital Media minor provides students with the opportunity to explore skills related to creative designers, artists, and storytellers in animation, game design, motion design, visual effects and concept art for film, television, video games and advertising industries.
Participating Departments:
Fashion
Fine Arts: Painting
Fine Arts: Photography
Fine Arts: Sculpture/New Genres
Graphic Design
Illustration
Product Design
Toy Design
Program Learning Outcomes
Otis College Interdisciplinary Studies: Digital Media Minor Program Learning Outcomes are action words describing our approach to learning, and what we commit to our students.
Digital Media Minor Students Will:
Digital Media Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Disciplinary Knowledge and Skills
Understanding of design principles, storytelling techniques, cinematic language and production pipelines used in digital content creation, animation, concept art, and game design. - Proficiency in Industry-Standard Skills, Technologies, and Processes
Proficiencies in utilizing industry-standard tools such as Adobe Suite, Maya, Toon Boom, Unreal Engine, Houdini, and/or Substance Painter to create high-quality assets, animations, environments, and/or gameplay experiences. - Cross-Disciplinary Awareness and Practice
Developed practice grounded in two or more disciplines.
Digital Media Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Innovation • Experimentation and Play • Challenge to the Status Quo • Bravery in their Work and their Interactions with Others
Capacity to combine aspects of digital media with work in one's major and/or push the boundaries between each field.
Digital Media Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Capacity to Communicate (Orally, Written, and/or Visually) about their Practice
Ability to clearly articulate the relationship between their work in digital media and their major and how these studies will help them achieve personal and professional goals. - Analysis of Both Ethical and Aesthetic Impacts of Art and Design
Analysis of the ethical and aesthetic impacts their work has on their fields of study as well as society, culture, and the environment.
Digital Media Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Awareness of Positionality – in the World, their Field, their Communities. • Integration
of Skills and Concepts:
Successful integration of skills, information and concepts between their majors and Digital Media minor, while understanding and articulating their positionality in their chosen fields.
Digital Media Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Ability to define aspirations, future goals and their role within the creative economy.
Defined aspirations, future goals and their role as an interdisciplinary creative within the creative economy. - Compelling presentation and exhibition skills, through Annual Exhibition, Capstone,
and portfolios.
Successful completion and presentation (portfolio and/or reel) of original work in digital media that resonates with intended audiences.
Course Requirements
15 credits in Digital Media, Animation or Game and Entertainment Design courses are
required to complete this minor.
This can be 5 studio courses or 4 studio courses + 1 LAS course.
Students select courses based on guidance from the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Minor Area Heads and Academic Advisors and must follow prerequisites when applicable. For the full list of courses that will count for this minor, along with recommended courses to take first, see the Minors Course Lists on the Registration page of the Dashboard (my.otis.edu). Students are advised to take minor classes in place of studio electives (or in place of one LAS elective), or for majors without electives by taking one extra class in each of 5 semesters spread out between sophomore and senior year.