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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
CS 774.1 | Title:
INTRO TO DIGITAL MEDIA |
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| Full Title:
Introduction to Digital Media |
| Last Reviewed:9/22/2025 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 0 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
| Minimum | 0 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
Non-Credit
Grading:
Non-Credit Course
Repeatability:
27 - Exempt From Repeat Provisions
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
Catalog Description:
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Students in this non-credit course will be introduced to digital imaging, illustrations, audio, video, animation, web content design, best practices, and content development. Using industry standard software, students will create and display a digital media portfolio on a website that they design. The portfolio will include text, graphics, logos, animation, video, and audio.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Students in this non-credit course will be introduced to digital imaging, illustrations, audio, video, animation, web content design, best practices, and content development. Using industry standard software, students will create and display a digital media portfolio on a website that they design. The portfolio will include text, graphics, logos, animation, video, and audio.
(Non-Credit Course)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:
Repeatability:27 - Exempt From Repeat Provisions
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
| Associate Degree: | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| CSU Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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| UC Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Both Certificate and Major Applicable
Approval and Dates
| Version: | 01 | Course Created/Approved: | 9/22/2025 |
| Version Created: | 9/25/2024 | Course Last Modified: | 10/24/2025 |
| Submitter: | Ethan Wilde | Course Last Full Review: | 9/22/2025 |
| Version Status: | Approved New Course (First Version) | Prereq Created/Approved: | 9/22/2025 |
| Version Status Date: | 9/22/2025 | Semester Last Taught: | |
| Version Term Effective: | Fall 2025 | Term Inactive: | |
COURSE CONTENT
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Identify digital media career opportunities in terms of growth and salary trends.
2. Apply their conceptual knowledge of digital storytelling to the construction of an electronic portfolio that displays original digital media content.
3. Present and defend an evaluation of digital media based on storytelling and best practices.
Objectives:
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At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Discuss current trends in the digital media industry.
2. Research and determine career opportunities in digital media.
3. Identify, create, edit, and display different types of digital file formats in text, graphics, animation, video, and audio.
4. Create an online digital multimedia presentation using photography, illustration, audio, animation, video, and web authoring.
Topics and Scope
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I. Professional Opportunities in Digital Media
II. Interactive Design in Digital Media
A. User interface content
B. Different types of digital media file formats
1. Website images
2. Web-based delivery presentations
C. Digital file formats
1. Native file formats
2. Portable file formats
D. Transfer of media files
1. Transferring between Mac and PC
2. Downloading, uploading, and using File Transfer Protocol to move files
3. Exporting and importing file types between applications
4. Cross-platform portable electronic presentations
E. Capturing graphics and video
1. Use of a digital camera
2. Use of a digital video camera
III. Video Game Design in Digital Media
A. Definition of User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) and storytelling with digital media
1. Design components and process
2. Storytelling, narrative, and basic UI/UX design
3. Creating the user experience
B. Audio and video production
1. Hardware and software
2. Recording techniques
3. Digital audio production and repair
C. Evaluation of digital media presentations
1. Functionality
2. Interface design
3. Logos
D. Other topics
1. Copyright issues
2. Web design delivery and considerations
IV. Best Practices for Overall Digital Media Design
A. User-interface
B. Integration
C. Navigation
D. Interactivity
E. Distribution
V. Creating Presentations Using Various Multimedia Applications
A. Illustration programs
B. Image-editing programs
C. Animation, audio, video programs
VI. Current Trends in Digital Media Industry
Assignments:
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1. Reading assingments (5-10 pages per week)
2. Critiques and discussion forums
a. View and critique professional digital media content within a class discussion forum
b. View and critique other student presentations within a class discussion forum
c. Critique of final projects
3. Create digital media content of increasing complexity which will include:
a. Text, audio, animation, video, and images
b. Editing digital images
c. Presentation with media consistent with current copyright laws
d. Short video production
4. Quizzes (2-3)
5. Final project: Interactive, online portfolio website that includes images, video, audio, logos, and text
6. Presentation(s)
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
40 - 60% |
| Digital media content creation, final project and presentation(s) | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
20 - 40% |
| Quizzes | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
10 - 20% |
| Participation and critiques and discussion forums | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Instructor prepared materials
OTHER REQUIRED ELEMENTS
| Student Preparation |
| Matric Assessment Required: | X | Exempt From Assessment |
| Prerequisites-generate description: | NP | No Prerequisite |
| Advisories-generate description: | NA | No Advisory |
| Prereq-provisional: | N | NO |
| Prereq/coreq-registration check: | N | No Prerequisite Rules Exist |
| Requires instructor signature: | N | Instructor's Signature Not Required |
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| BASIC INFORMATION, HOURS/UNITS & REPEATABILITY |
| Method of instruction: | 02 | Lecture |
| Area department: | CS | Computer Studies |
| Division: | 72 | Arts & Humanities |
| Special topic course: | N | Not a Special Topic Course |
| Program Status: | 1 | Both Certificate and Major Applicable |
| Repeatability: | 27 | Exempt From Repeat Provisions |
| Repeat group id: | | |
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| SCHEDULING |
| Audit allowed: | N | Not Auditable |
| Open entry/exit: | N | Not Open Entry/Open Exit |
| Credit by Exam: | Y | Credit by examination allowed |
| Budget code: Program: | 0000 | Unrestricted |
| Budget code: Activity: | 0701 | Computer & Information Science |
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| OTHER CODES |
| Disciplines: | Computer Information Systems |
| Basic Skills: | N | Not a Basic Skills Course |
| Level below transfer: | Y | Not Applicable |
| CVU/CVC status: | N | Not Distance Ed |
| Distance Ed Approved: | N | |
| Emergency Distance Ed Approved: | Y | Fully Online
Partially Online
Online with flexible in-person activities
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| Credit for Prior Learning: | N | Agency Exam |
| N | CBE |
| N | Industry Credentials |
| N | Portfolio |
| Non-credit category: | J | Workforce Preparation |
| Classification: | J | Workforce Preparation - enhanced funding |
| SAM classification: | C | Clearly Occupational |
| TOP code: | 0614.10 | Multimedia |
| Work-based learning: | N | Does Not Include Work-Based Learning |
| DSPS course: | N | NO |
| In-service: | N | Not an In-Service Course |
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