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Term Effective:
Fall 2019
Description:
The Digital Media: Web and Multimedia major provides students with the knowledge and skills to generate and manipulate graphics, animations, sound, text and video into consolidated and seamless website and multimedia presentations.
Web and Multimedia Developers should have a good understanding of multimedia design principles including interface design, principles of interaction design, foundations of image, video, and audio content creation, color theory, and typography. Designers need to understand how to optimize media content in a variety of scenarios as well as knowledge of website development. The program stresses a thorough understanding of Principles of Design, HTML, CSS framework, 2-D Animation, JavaScript, video and audio editing. Students will design and deploy websites and multimedia content to meet the standards in the field and of clients from the community.
This program stresses the practical application of multimedia development skills in real life projects. Students projects focus on collaborative efforts to create content for non-profit organizations in Sonoma County. The ability to work in a group, communicate with a client, resolve problems, meet deadlines, and understand the content development cycle is just as important as understanding the software and programming aspects of multimedia. This hands-on approach ensures that as students complete the program, they will have practical experience, as well as finished multimedia projects to feature in an electronic portfolio.
A successful Web and Multimedia Developer exhibits strong work ethics, high standards, patience, strong people skills, and an attention to detail.
Job titles include Web Multimedia Specialist, Interactive Designer, User-interface Designer, UIX Specialist, Multimedia Content Creator.
This program of study is also available as a Certificate option.
Upon successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:
- Complete professional projects, products, and other assignments in applications using industry-standard web and multimedia applications.
- Demonstrate analytical, critical thinking and decision-making skills as they apply to web and multimedia design.
- Understand, apply, and integrate knowledge of the principles and standards of web and digital media design and demonstrate this in professional projects and assignments that rely on best design practices, software, programming and markup language expertise.
Program Requirements:
The requirements for the Digital Media: Web and Multimedia (AA) program are:
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Complete 20 units from
- Web Development Core Requirements
- Web and Multimedia Emphasis Requirements
- Information Learning Resources Requirement
| Web Development Core Requirements - complete 9.00 units |
| CS 50A | Web Development 1 | 3.00 |
| CS 50B | Web Development 2 | 3.00 |
| CS 50C | Web Development 3- JavaScript | 3.00 |
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| Web and Multimedia Emphasis Requirements - complete 10.00 units |
| CS 50.32 | Web and Digital Media Projects | 4.00 |
| CS 70.11A | Adobe Photoshop 1 | 3.00 |
Complete any combination totaling at least 3.00 units from the following:
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| CS 74.11 | Introduction to Digital Media | 3.00 |
| CS 74.21A | Digital Video Post-Production Techniques 1 | 1.50 |
| CS 74.21B | Digital Video Post-Production Techniques 2 | 1.50 |
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| Information Learning Resources Requirement - complete 1.00 units |
| LIR 10 | Introduction to Information Literacy | 1.00 |
Term Effective:
Fall 2019
The requirements for this program of study are effective beginning the semester shown above. If you began working on this program before the effective semester, you may not be affected by the changes. Consult with the program contact person or the department chair to determine your eligibility to complete the program under previous requirements.
Associate Degree Requirements:
The major is one of several requirements students need to fulfill in order to be awarded the Associate Degree, the highest level of academic achievement recognized by Santa Rosa Junior College. Please note that all of the following requirements must be met in order for the degree to be conferred:
For all students admitted for the Fall 2009 term or any term thereafter,
a grade of "C" or better, or "P" if the course is taken on a pass/no pass basis,
is required for each course applied toward the major.
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