Requirements For Minor in Art and Technology
The Arts and Technology Minor combines practice and theory in digital art, internet art, web design, video, audio, multimedia and new media. It offers the student an introduction to computer-based art, design, sound and music through research and lab-based courses. The Minor encourages students to be experimental
in their approach to computers and the arts.
Total units (21)
  Units Check List
Cultural, Historical, and Theoretical Studies, Choose two: 6  

VPA 101
VSAR 102 - The Computer and the Visual Arts
VSAR 222 - Survey of World Cinema
VSAR 328 - Video Art History and Theory
VSAR 405 - Critical Theories of the Arts in Cyberspace
VSAR 422 - Art and Technology of the Moving Image
VSAR 423 - Critical History of Photography

   
     
Studio (introductory level) , Choose two: 6  

MUSC 302
VSAR 302 - The Computer and the Visual Arts
VSAR 303 - Introduction to Video Arts
VSAR 305 - Art and Digital Video for the Web

   
     
Studio (Intermediate and Advanced), Choose three:
9
 
MUSC 402
VSAR 304 - Advanced Video Production
VSAR 306 - Video in the Community
VSAR 309 - Generating Narrative in Video and New Media
VSAR 403 - Interactive Multimedia
VSAR 404 -
VSAR 440
   
     
Note: Courses used to satisfy requirements
of the Minor may also be used to fulfill General Education requirements. Students may apply up to nine units of transfer credit toward the Minor. Students must earn a grade of C or better in each course for the Minor. At least twelve (12) units of coursework submitted for the Minor must be completed at CSUSM. Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) majors may pursue this Minor if their VPA track is different from Arts and Technology and nine (9) units are mutually exclusive, i.e., not double-counted for the major and minor.